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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
Denver considers district-wide merit pay
Selling vouchers to suburbanites
Beyond Islands of Excellence: What Districts can do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools
Parents, not ed schools, oppose test-driven accountability
International Comparisons in Fourth-Grade Reading Literacy: Findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS) of 2001
The Virtual High School: Teaching Generation V
The challenge of basing education policy on sound research
New Leaders program brings nontraditional principals to more schools
NBPTS Certification: Who Applies and What Factors are Associated with Success?
Bridging the Achievement Gap
High-stakes tests boost minority results
State Support to Low-Performing Schools
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