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“Video games are an amazing tool for education,” Microsoft education executive says
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Physical schools in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. are closed until at least August or September 2020. Our infographic gets an update.
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Superintendent Floats Fall Scenario of “Hybrid” Reopening
Students would “attend school certain days of the week and learn from home on others.”
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Shooting the Test-Messenger
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“Existential Fear and Constant Worry”
Stockton, California, school superintendent John Deasy on the Covid-19 crisis: “The daily death rates and new case announcements are very difficult to wrap your head around. It is like the shock of 9/11 every week.”
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Federal Appeals Judges Discover Constitutional Right to “Basic Minimum Education”
Opinion cites 110-degree classrooms, “rodent feces” in Detroit schools.
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Harvard Professor’s “Absurd” Claim that Homeschooling Is Child Abuse
Homeschooling legal group pushed to relax law governing abuse, neglect
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In the Coronavirus-Caused Distance Learning, a Silver Lining
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Play Is Essential for All Children, Pediatricians Insist
The authors of Let the Children Play respond to a review
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When Schools Closed by Coronavirus Will Reopen: a State-by-State List
Massachusetts, Ohio, Colorado and Kentucky join the growing list of states that won’t re-open physical schools until August or September at the soonest. Our infographic gets a new update with the latest information.
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