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The coronavirus pandemic is changing life at universities in Maryland as classes go online for the rest of the semester as part of the national effort to help slow down the rapid spread of the virus.
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As of Monday, 35 states had closed public schools, according to Education Week. Combined with districts in other states, at least 35.9 million students have been impacted — and that number is expected to grow.
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Boston Public Schools received a shipment of Chromebooks for homebound students, days after Mayor Martin Walsh announced that schools in the city would close until the end of April to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Syracuse, N.Y., city and area school districts are working with a local television station in that vicinity to put public school classrooms on TV as schools shut down because of the coronavirus.
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With schools now closed for three weeks to slow the spread of COVID-19, a return to normal classroom learning is in doubt for New Mexico’s students this spring, ushering in the future of digital learning.
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As institutions around the country respond to the new coronavirus, online learning has emerged as one of the only options. Many are finding that this shift away from in-person classes is not as simple as it sounds.
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An online education expert explains the challenges schools will face as they go virtual.
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Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College in South Carolina recently held the grand opening ceremony and ribbon-cutting for the college's state-of-the-art new $12.5 million, 30,000-square-foot Nursing Building.
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In the spirit of not letting a serious crisis go to waste, the coronavirus may provide online learning with a breakout opportunity.
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The construction and eventual operation of the DreamPort Cybersecurity Collaborative at USC Aiken is a partnership between the local university, the Savannah River National Laboratory and the S.C. National Guard.
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Experts at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are working on new tests: one to help diagnose COVID-19 cases and another to understand better the history and mutations of the virus to develop vaccines.
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The University of Colorado Boulder is closing its Center for Science & Technology Policy Research at the end of this academic year, a decision that has drawn some criticism from stakeholders.
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Apollo High School is one of 30 schools in the nation, and the only one in Kentucky, that was invited to send a team to the CSForALL workshop that took place at the end of February in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Fredericksburg, Va., recently hosted its ninth local STEM summit, which is an event where local students of all ages are introduced to science, technology, engineering, math and robotics projects.
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Students in Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication are fighting fake news with a student-managed website to track, research and analyze disinformation, fake news and deepfake videos.
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UC San Diego Health is conducting a drone trial with the overall goal of delivering medical samples around the medical campus. UCSD Health is the second medical campus to utilize drone technology.
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Thanks in part to a $50,000 Digital Learning Grant last year from the Indiana Department of Education, Greensburg Junior High School now has a new facility for students called the STEMConnects Lab.
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A Howard County, Md., engineer works as the STEM outreach program manager at Johns Hopkins University, and he connects students of color and women with science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs.
