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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

Racial and ethnic gaps in advanced STEM achievement: 3 takeaways from recent research

Parent navigators are worth the investment for school choice supporters

How much education is a public responsibility?

Will ESAs change America’s definition of “public education?”: An interview with Ashley Berner

Schools have been adding teachers and student support staff, even as they serve fewer students

Americans are embracing non-college pathways to upward mobility

Cheers and Jeers: February 2, 2023

What we're reading this week: February 2, 2023

#855: How states are fighting credential inflation, with Rick Hess

Toward a broader conception of student success—and a broader conception of accountability

Interpreting the Covid impact on achievement

Fordham is proud of our (limited) role in Virginia’s effort to improve its civics and U.S. history standards
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