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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
quotable and notable
Schools with big achievement gaps: Civil rights failures?or successes?
Gadfly, gadfly
LAUSD: School reform mecca?
Education News Nuggets
Tom Loveless: Accountability systems appear to close achievement gaps
How charters are serving kids with special needs
Cristo Rey: Working their way through school
Now that's expensive!
Central Office Transformation for District-wide Teaching and Learning Improvement
Scientific reasoning
Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers
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