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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
Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools
Un-exceptionalism
The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life
Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools
Effects of Kindergarten Retention Policy on Children's Cognitive Growth in Reading and Mathematics
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Adequacy, Accountability, and the Impact of "No Child Left Behind" (preliminary draft)
A new wave of home schooling
Sex, drugs, and Mickey Mouse
Charter schools rising
Entrance requirements - not just for college anymore
Stemming the tide
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