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In March, the Clark County School District found itself in an unenviable position, with more than 300 campuses closed and more than 300,000 students staying at home.

Pull your pick from the shelf, remove the inner sleeve from the jacket and place the platter on your player. Start it spinning, and move the needle to the grooves. Try having that sort of relationship with a stream or download.

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.