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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
#857: The states leading the way in literacy, with Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene
Give parents wide latitude on ESA uses—and give teachers their own accounts, too
Soft-on-consequences discipline is terrible for teachers
An examination of cream-skimming and pushout data among voucher students
Re-evaluating the cost of test-based retention policies
Cheers and Jeers: February 9, 2023
What we're reading this week: February 9, 2023
#856: Why education savings accounts won’t bring educational pluralism, with Ashley Berner
Racial and ethnic gaps in advanced STEM achievement: 3 takeaways from recent research
Parent navigators are worth the investment for school choice supporters
How much education is a public responsibility?
Will ESAs change America’s definition of “public education?”: An interview with Ashley Berner
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