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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
Good Ideas: Six Valuable State and Local Education Reforms
Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams
Pay no attention to the bias behind the curtain
The old argument on research
Choosing Better Schools: A Report on Student Transfers Under the No Child Left Behind Act
Textbook reform in California
From the mouths of children&
Shuck corn, not standards
Money for Nothing: The Failures of Education Reform in Massachusetts
Pushed Out or Pulled Up? Exit Exams and Dropout Rates in Public High Schools
Making choice work in the Commonwealth
Charters making gains in Michigan
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