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Las Vegas-area hospitals have struggled to procure the antiviral drug remdesivir, which is mostly obtained through participation in a clinical trial …

“Students of color who are in low-income communities may or may not have access to technology,” says UNLV assistant professor Iesha Jackson. “They may not have a computer or fast-enough internet to access all the resources.”

UNLV officials say they’re working on a few scenarios for the fall semester, tentatively still scheduled to begin in late August.

Online sites for cooking, making instruments and … riding roller coasters?

“We know that this experience is having intense repercussions on how children are developing—as children and as students. Educators need to be mindful of that and how that’s affecting people in such a short and abrupt time.”

Now that schools will stay closed through the end of the school year—and possibly beyond—what’s the plan for addressing the education gaps that will have inevitably deepened once this is all over?

“I’m concerned about my harder classes next year—that I won’t be prepared.”

Challenging as these uncertain times might feel, they also present opportunities to face an unprecedented, historical challenge to education’s norms head-on.

One of the advantages of homeschooling is students’ flexibility in choosing what interests them. The shutdown could be an opportunity to break away from a rigid structure.

California restaurants have drafted a plan to allow the industry to reopen for sit-down dining with an array of safeguards while avoiding possible requirements imposed in other states that customers have their temperature taken or the number of tables…