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Virtual learning in K-12 education continues to grow due to the health threat caused by coronavirus variants and the assistance this learning model can provide to at-risk students, according to two papers released today by Pioneer Institute.

The Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Instruments and the Art of Music-Making, by Max Wade-Matthews and Wendy Thompson The Great Composers: An Illustrated Guide To The Lives, Key Works And Influences Of Over 100 Renowned Composers, by Wendy Thompson Language of the Spirit:...

A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787-88), by John Adams The Virginia Plan (1787), by James Madison The Federalist Papers: 62 (1788), by “Publius” James Madison The Constitution of the United States, Article. I. Section....

The Federalist, by Hamilton, Madison, and & Jay, edited by Jacob E. Cooke The Birth Of The Bill Of Rights, 1776-1791, by Robert Allen Rutland Framed for Posterity: The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution, by Ralph Ketcham A History of the Supreme...

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, by Brian Floca Who Was Neil Armstrong?, by Roberta Edwards My First Book of Planets: All About the Solar System for Kids, by Bruce Betts PhD Moon! Earth’s Best Friend, by Stacy McAnulty The Faces, Err...

An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, by John Steele Gordon Basic Economics, by Thomas Sowell An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith and R. H. Campbell (Editor) Alexander Hamilton,...

  Mother Goose Treasury: A Beautiful Collection of Favorite Nursery Rhymes, by Parragon Books and Priscilla Lamont (Illustrator) Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author), Ted Rand (Illustrator) Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings, by Shel Silverstein (Author, Illustrator) Gilgamesh...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts residents have mixed opinions about how K-12 education has functioned, but they tend to view the performance of individual teachers more favorably than that of institutions like school districts and teachers’ unions, according to a poll of 1,500 residents commissioned by Pioneer Institute.

The co-operative education program at Boston’s Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, which places students in paid positions with local employers, lags far behind other Massachusetts vocational-technical schools in terms of both placements and number of employer contacts.  But with the school as a whole beginning to improve after years of turmoil, the co-op is also showing promising signs, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.

In Pioneer’s ongoing series of blogs here, on curricular resources for parents, families, and teachers during COVID-19, this one focuses on: Memorializing International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th and learning about the tragedy of the Holocaust during WWII.