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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

How lax grading policies make classrooms chaotic

Putting the Core Knowledge study into perspective

Look beyond test scores to gauge the impact of teacher performance pay

Cheers and Jeers: May 4, 2023

What we're reading this week: May 4, 2023

#868: Virginia’s new history and social science standards, with Andy Rotherham

“A Nation at Risk” still has a message for today, forty years later

In defense of education culture wars

Stiff headwinds for civic education

Should selective high school admissions be decided by a one-shot test?

The problematic variation in socioeconomic status measures

Cheers and Jeers: April 27, 2023
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