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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
Peer effects at community colleges
School composition and the black-white achievement gap
The Chicago way
Ohio backpedaled on proficiency, but it's the exception
Charter reform in Ohio
Finland's "joyful, illiterate kindergarteners"
How schools can offset the "Asian advantage" for other kids, too
Yes, achievement tests matter. No, they don't capture everything
Ed Next Book Club: Failing Our Brightest Kids
Does the chaos in the House mean ESEA reauthorization is dead? Maybe
Curriculum: The great divide among education reformers
Democratic candidates side-step the Seventy Four's education debate
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