Working From Home

If Home-Schooling Your Children Overwhelms You, Narrow Your Focus

“There’s no need for parents to reinvent the wheel.”

Illustration by Oscar Bolton Green

As the pandemic continues, so will home-schooling. Now that you’ve survived the first round, you may be wondering: Where should I focus my energies once the new school year starts so that I can hold down my day job?

“There’s no need for parents to reinvent the wheel,” says Linda Bevilacqua, president of Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit that has produced learning materials for three decades and that supports the schools and parents who use them.