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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
With more than half of states closing their schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other caregivers have become de facto “home schoolers” practically overnight. Students in this situation will likely be spending a fair amount of time on screens—as a lifeline, respite, or both. We have compiled some excellent suggestions—updated several times since initial publication—for making at least some of that time educational.
Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures
Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures
Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis
A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online
6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction
Knowing what to do isn’t knowing how to do it: The missing discipline of systemic strategy
Strengthening literacy systems: Embedding school–home partnerships to improve outcomes for all kids
Still missing: Educators’ knowledge of language
Denver ed reform took a big blow. Here’s why.
Don’t forget to write
Using family partnerships to help fulfill the science-of-reading promise
Science of reading 2.0: Assessment in the service of learning as the backbone of science-powered reading improvement
From slogans to scores: What has to happen next for the science of reading to actually work
The science of reading is not about policies, it’s about practices
Give reading teachers better systems
Sex, drugs, and screens: Why schools can’t win the dopamine Olympics
The slippery slope of relaxed high school graduation standards
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