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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
Partially Prudent: Hamilton's Effects on Students
Nothing Matters: Classroom Discipline and Student Achievement
Specters, upshots, and the devout
The Lovitz edition
How tracking can raise the test scores of high-ability minority students
The long-term effects of disruptive peers
The 2016 Brown Center report on education: How well are American students learning?
Army brats for Common Core
ESSA accountability: Don't forget the high-achievers
The teacher hazing ritual
The Proper Perspective: Ohio school report cards and the opt-out problem
Educational equity: Mission accomplished or merely begun?
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