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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
Great teachers can teach more students, even without raising class sizes
Times have changed, so must we: Seize the day, adapt, and thrive
Making Americans: Civic education and the Common Core
If you like your federal education policy, you can keep it!
Right-sizing the Classroom: Making the Most of Great Teachers
Traversing the Teacher-Evaluation Terrain
Netflix Academy: The best streaming videos on frogs and other amphibians
Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling
Over- and underachievers
Back to basics: Do standards matter?
Pattern of activity points to big problems
Hell yes we want instructional change. Don’t you?
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