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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
Cheers and Jeers: September 7, 2023
What we're reading this week: September 7, 2023
#886: Achievement gaps among advanced students, with Adam Tyner
The essential state role in educating advanced learners
Texas’s controversial takeover of Houston’s schools
Searching for mobility in K–12 achievement
Cheers and Jeers: August 31, 2023
What we're reading this week: August 31, 2023
America’s highest-achieving students are disproportionately Asian. Let’s not be afraid to investigate why.
#885: Virtual teachers are back, with Linda Jacobson
The hill that public education dies on: Transgender policies’ utter contempt for parents
How districts are gaming graduation rates by letting students cheat
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