{"id":71486,"date":"2020-07-19T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71486"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:01:05","slug":"6-tips-for-homeschooling-in-fall-2020-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/19\/6-tips-for-homeschooling-in-fall-2020-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"6 tips for homeschooling in fall 2020 [McDonald]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kerrymcdonald\/2020\/07\/17\/6-tips-for-homeschooling-in-fall-2020\/#7f1dac325af2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>6 tips for homeschooling in fall 2020 <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from forbes.com by Kerry McDonald<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As schools and districts across the country finalize back-to-school plans amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, some parents are instead choosing independent homeschooling. My inbox has been filling lately with messages from parents who may never before have considered homeschooling but are worried about their children\u2019s potential exposure to the virus at school. Others are turned off by social distancing requirements being\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/states-initial-guidelines-to-reopen-mass-schools-this-fall-include-face-coverings-social-distancing\/\" href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/states-initial-guidelines-to-reopen-mass-schools-this-fall-include-face-coverings-social-distancing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/states-initial-guidelines-to-reopen-mass-schools-this-fall-include-face-coverings-social-distancing\/\" aria-label=\"implemented\">implemented<\/a>\u00a0by many schools, such as wearing masks all day and limiting interactions with peers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Fortunately,\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32546824\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32546824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32546824\/\" aria-label=\"research\">research<\/a>\u00a0shows low infection rates for children, who seem to avoid the virus\u2019s worst outcomes. New\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/14\/schools-coronavirus-infection-rate-low-german-study-finds.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/14\/schools-coronavirus-infection-rate-low-german-study-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/14\/schools-coronavirus-infection-rate-low-german-study-finds.html\" aria-label=\"findings\">findings<\/a>\u00a0out of Germany, where schools have been reopened for several weeks, also suggest low infection rates for young people. Despite these encouraging signs, more parents are looking for schooling alternatives. As\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/16\/well\/family\/not-everyone-hates-school-at-home.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/16\/well\/family\/not-everyone-hates-school-at-home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/16\/well\/family\/not-everyone-hates-school-at-home.html\" aria-label=\"reported\">reported<\/a>\u00a0this week, \u201ca growing number of families are thinking about home schooling this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here are 6 tips for parents considering homeschooling for this academic year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 tips for homeschooling in fall 2020 &#8212; from forbes.com by Kerry McDonald Excerpt: As schools and districts across the country finalize back-to-school plans amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, some parents are instead choosing independent homeschooling. My inbox has been filling lately with messages from parents who may never before have considered homeschooling but are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,121,359,373,46,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-face-to-face","category-health","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-k-12-related","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71488,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486\/revisions\/71488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}