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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
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2007
George Will on NCLB: Right diagnosis, wrong cure
Sources of charter-school mediocrity
Who will be the fittest?
Why not weapon-proof schools?
The 2007 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Bigotry is back
I wish it was like 1999
The Cincinnati promise?
Voices of experience help charter-school board members
School-funding ideas could force Strickland's hand
Selected comments from our readers
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