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COVID-19 Home-Learning Resource

All of us at Fordham are sending our thoughts for everyone's health and well-being during the coronavirus emergency. On this page, over the coming weeks, we will aggregate the best resources and ideas out there for remote learning, including highlighting schools, teachers, and parents doing this well—along with whatever other education angles are helpful during this unprecedented situation.

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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures

Michael J. Petrilli 3.16.2020
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Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures

Victoria McDougald 3.19.2020
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Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures

Emma Finn 3.19.2020
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Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis

Brandon L. Wright 4.13.2020
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A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online

Jeffrey Olson, Trevor Packer 8.18.2020
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6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction

Nik Osborne 8.17.2020
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Covid-19 learning losses: Dark days lie ahead

Tom Coyne 8.13.2020
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Reopening decisions are mostly a matter of trust

Michael J. Petrilli 8.12.2020
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Teacher unions vs. private schools

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 8.12.2020
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Schools’ responses to Covid-19 in spring 2020

Jeff Murray 8.12.2020
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Seven steps to design safe and healthy school drop-off and entry routines

Eric Tucker, Sarah Haga, Aaron Daly, Sarah Pactor 8.7.2020
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Balancing learning loss against social and emotional harm

Victoria McDougald 8.5.2020
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Building a stronger, more equitable education system

LaVerne Evans Srinivasan 8.3.2020
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Everything you need to know about online tutoring

Ulrich Boser 7.30.2020
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With its next stimulus bill, Congress should return federal education aid to its roots

Michael J. Petrilli 7.29.2020
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School districts could try harder to reopen

Dale Chu 7.29.2020
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Everything you need to know about online tutoring

Ulrich Boser 7.30.2020
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No easy choices except to be kind (and butt out!)

Erika Sanzi 7.27.2020
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Tutoring as an effective strategy in our troubled times

Robert Slavin, David Steiner 7.22.2020
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The “gifted gap” was already growing before the pandemic

Chris Yaluma 7.24.2020
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Schools should ignore Trump and DeVos and worry about winning parents’ trust instead

Michael J. Petrilli 7.15.2020
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The upcoming experiment with class size reduction

Dale Chu 7.15.2020
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Teacher and principals’ views from the Covid battle zone

Jeff Murray 7.15.2020
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What are we going to do about school?

Jonathan V. Last 7.6.2020
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Why Secretary DeVos should reject Michigan’s testing waiver request

Dale Chu 7.1.2020
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The worst is yet to come

Robert Pondiscio 6.29.2020
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Bright spots: Five things schools thriving during Covid-19 have in common

Lina Eroh 6.29.2020
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Curriculum in a pandemic: Four lessons learned

Lynne Munson 6.24.2020
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How fundamental change happens in America

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 6.17.2020
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Let’s rebuild special education when schools reopen

Anne Delfosse, Miriam Kurtzig Freedman 6.17.2020
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The case for statewide diagnostic assessments in the fall

Trinady Maddock 6.17.2020
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If a spike in Covid-19 cases does not follow the mass demonstrations, it should change the calculus for reopening schools

Dale Chu 6.10.2020
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In the era of Covid-19, put learning first—and other lessons

Kerri Briggs, Trent Kaufman, Mavis Snelson 6.10.2020
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18 virtual summer camps to keep your kids learning—and busy

Tran Le 6.9.2020
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Teaching and learning from home must continue to be an option for educators and families. Here’s how states can help.

Michael J. Petrilli 6.8.2020
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Where justice, education, and faith intersect

Stephanie Saroki de Garcia 6.4.2020
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The failure of virus experts and their models—and what it means for K–12

Michael Goldstein 6.3.2020
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Keeping students on track for college and beyond during coronavirus

Stefanie Sanford 6.1.2020
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What AP teachers taught us about learning continuity during coronavirus

Stefanie Sanford 5.28.2020
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Half-Time High School may be just what students need

Michael J. Petrilli 5.27.2020
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Four reasons Republicans should support aid for state and local governments

Michael J. Petrilli, Chad L. Aldis 5.26.2020
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What coronavirus has taught us about the digital divide

Stefanie Sanford 5.26.2020
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Seven steps to sending elementary kids back to school and parents back to work

Michael J. Petrilli 5.22.2020
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Parents' demands for safe school reopenings

Keri Rodrigues 5.22.2020
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Keeping the teacher-student feedback loop intact during distance learning

Maggie Johnson 5.21.2020
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On distance learning, Success Academy once again leads the way

Robert Pondiscio 5.20.2020
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As we seek to redesign K–12, let’s first transform teacher education

Patrick Riccards 5.14.2020
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Love (of a veteran teacher) in the time of coronavirus

Maggie Johnson 5.14.2020
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Forge emotional connections with students before pursuing lessons online

Elizabeth Mee 5.12.2020
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A self-reflection tool for distance learners

Beth Blaufuss 5.11.2020
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Denver’s ambitious reimagination of accountability

Derek Gottlieb 5.11.2020
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Hard questions for building leaders to re-open schools

Kathleen Porter-Magee 5.8.2020
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Providing teachers with quality materials that they're trained to use is critical as schools prepare for the fall

Amy Cox 5.8.2020
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To reopen our economy, we need to reopen our childcare centers. But they need help.

Trinady Maddock 5.7.2020
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District management teams: Meeting the COVID-19 challenge

Susan Miller 5.7.2020
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When it comes to catching kids up, let’s stop with the generalities

Michael J. Petrilli 5.6.2020
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Elementary school teachers should stay with their students this fall

Dale Chu 5.6.2020
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An orderly return to school in the fall is unlikely

Derrell Bradford 5.5.2020
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COVID-19 cancelled state assessments for the spring. Should we push for permanent reductions in testing going forward?

Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons 5.4.2020
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On IDEA, Betsy DeVos did the right thing. Some school districts missed an opportunity.

Nathan Levenson 4.29.2020
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Given the pandemic, give students in Title I elementary schools the gift of extra time

Michael J. Petrilli 4.29.2020
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3 keys to the reading “road game”

Will Beller 4.28.2020
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More than ever, meeting students’ primary needs starts with meeting our own

Matthew Taylor 4.27.2020
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I see education and humanity in “full bloom” in my COVID-19 classroom

Daniel Parsons 4.24.2020
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We can rise to the challenge of educating students with disabilities during COVID-19

Lindsay Jones, Erin Mote, Lauren Morando Rhim, Eric Tucker 4.24.2020
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Charting a course together in K–2 literacy and math

Rachel Etienne, Tori Filler 4.23.2020
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Schools brace for belt-tightening in the wake of coronavirus

Dale Chu 4.22.2020
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“Doing math” at a distance

Maggie Johnson 4.22.2020
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"Hamilton" at home, a COVID-19-related extension of the Hamilton Education Program

4.22.2020
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Teach Like a Champion webinar on remote teaching

Doug Lemov 4.20.2020
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Giving all students an “A” is a terrible idea

Erika Sanzi 4.17.2020
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Technology, once considered a wedge, is now keeping students connected

Andrew Goldin 4.17.2020
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No, this is not the new normal

Robert Pondiscio 4.15.2020
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Want more Doctor Faucis? Ensure that smart kids get educated, too.

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 4.15.2020
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How Idaho’s Gem Innovation Schools are keeping learning going during the COVID-19 shutdown

Alan Gottlieb 4.16.2020
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Special education in the time of coronavirus: DeVos and Congress need to act!

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman 4.14.2020
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Culling online supplemental instructional materials amid coronavirus closures

Jenni Aberli, Victoria McDougald 4.14.2020
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Let’s build back better

Caprice Young 4.14.2020
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Public education in the age of coronavirus: We need swift boats, not ocean liners

David Osborne 4.14.2020
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Reading, writing, 'rithmetic...and the coronavirus reckoning

Dale Chu 4.13.2020
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The feds’ $13 billion K–12 stimulus is a good start, but schools will need more support when they reopen

Derrell Bradford 4.9.2020
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COVID-19’s governance challenges for school boards

Susan Miller 4.9.2020
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Putting the teacher’s touch on remote learning

Maggie Johnson 4.9.2020
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The lessons that last in the time of pandemic

Robert Pondiscio 4.8.2020
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How the feds can help schools run at 80 percent capacity

Dale Chu 4.8.2020
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The virus’s tragic toll on youth sports

Erika Sanzi 4.6.2020
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COVID-19 calls for break from K–12 traditions: What we can learn from GEO’s college immersion model

Kevin Teasley 4.7.2020
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Reimagining school

Emily Freitag 4.6.2020
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How we’re making remote learning easier and more engaging for our families—and why we’re making it all free for other educators nationwide

Juliana Worrell 4.6.2020
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A revolution in education, born of necessity

Kathleen Porter-Magee 4.3.2020
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What philanthropy can do now to promote education equity after the pandemic

Celine Coggins 4.3.2020
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Daddy School: Week 2

Michael Goldstein 4.3.2020
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Let’s get ready for stimulus 4.0

Paul Herdman 4.2.2020
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Students with disabilities: The whipping boy of coronavirus closures

Dale Chu 4.2.2020
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Every minute counts: Inside Success Academy’s virtual schools

Steven Wilson 4.1.2020
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Planning for ELA in an age of remote learning

Maggie Johnson 4.1.2020
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Teaching phonics remotely

Maggie Johnson 4.1.2020
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What we’re learning about remote learning

Brett Peiser 4.1.2020
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Papa Academy

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.30.2020
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In wake of COVID-19, teacher unions could learn from Rhode Island

Erika Sanzi 3.30.2020
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Schooling without school buildings: Early lessons from Partnership Schools

Kathleen Porter-Magee 3.27.2020
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Daddy School, week one

Michael Goldstein 3.18.2020
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Remote learning advice from Eva Moskowitz: “Keep it simple”

Robert Pondiscio 3.18.2020
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3 Indianapolis charter school networks that are all in on virtual learning

Steven Wilson 3.25.2020
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Keep kids learning while school is out: Bring back “current events”

Robert Pondiscio 3.25.2020
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Coronavirus has dealt a massive blow to Catholic schools

Kathleen Porter-Magee 3.26.2020
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COVID-19 closed schools. When should they reopen?

John Bailey 3.25.2020
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District responses to COVID-19 school closures

Center on Reinventing Public Education 3.25.2020
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COVID-19 and schools: One story from New Jersey

Mike Piscal 3.20.2020
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School accountability in the time of virus

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.25.2020
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Can schools avert the coronavirus cliff?

Dale Chu 3.25.2020
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They didn’t get to say goodbye

Erika Sanzi 3.19.2020
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Coronavirus closing your kid’s school? One parent’s plan for Daddy School

Michael Goldstein 3.6.2020
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COVID-19 and worst-case policy

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.18.2020
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The chronic condition of American education

Dale Chu 3.18.2020
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With the coronavirus bearing down on schools, educational content providers have a chance to shine

Michael J. Petrilli 3.12.2020
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For coronavirus-affected U.S. schools, 5 lessons from China in emergency distance learning

Adam Tyner, Ph.D. 3.9.2020
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Do-it-yourself educational lessons

Joy Hakim 3.27.2020
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