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7 Guiding Principles For Parents Teaching From Home

Understanding the “why” behind teaching practices can help parents create meaningful and effective at-home learning opportunities during the pandemic.

April 5th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Home School, Learning, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

Innovative Ways to Make Coronavirus a Teachable Moment

When the world feels dangerous, harnessing learning can provide some measure of clarity and perspective and lead to innovative ways of making the coronavirus a teachable moment

April 5th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

How online learning may be more than a stopgap in the US

What changes to the way children are educated might come after the current pandemic? While there are still shortcomings to address, some see innovation happening in online learning – and in how people think about the goal of education.

April 5th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Digital Learning, Education, Home School, Homework, Learning, News, Online, Online Education, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, School, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

Fun Online Classes For Kids To Learn, Create And Move At Home

From cooking classes, exercise classes and courses on gardening and other creative hobbies there are many supplemental courses online to keep kids entertained and learning

April 5th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Home School, Homework, K-12, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

Colleges go SAT/ACT-optional to ease burden on students

Colleges go SAT/ACT-optional to ease burden on students. Some colleges and universities have made the change permanent.

April 5th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, ACT, College and Career Readiness, College Degree, College Tuition, College-prep, College/University, Current Events, Education, High School, Higher Education, Learning, News, SAT, School, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

Help Students Build Intrinsic Motivation

Teachers and parents can boost kids' desire and dedication to learn by fostering students’ sense of mastery, autonomy

April 4th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Memory, Motivation, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, School, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

‘What I got wrong was trying to be a teacher’: how to last the distance at home schooling

It’s a challenge for parents to keep up the momentum of homeschooling when tempers are fraying. Here parents and experts share their tips

April 4th, 2020|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Home School, Homework, Learning, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

How Will Students Take AP Tests During the Pandemic? At Home, With an Open Book.

The College Board offered details about alterations to the AP tests it will administer this May to accommodate students during the coronavirus pandemic.