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FILE - In this May 28, 2021, file photo, motorists line up to receive Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 at a drive-in vaccination facility in Ahmedabad, India. Starting June 21, 2021, every Indian adult can get a COVID-19 vaccine dose for free that was purchased by the federal government. The policy reversal announced last week ends a complex system of buying vaccines that worsened inequities in accessing vaccines. India is a key global supplier of vaccines and its missteps have left millions of people waiting unprotected. The policy change is likely to address inequality but questions remain and shortages will continue. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
EXPLAINER: How India is changing vaccine plan amid shortages

By Aniruddha Ghosal Jun. 18, 2021 02:07 AM EDT

North Kingstown math teacher named state Teacher of the Year

Jun. 17, 2021 12:11 PM EDT
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A North Kingstown High School math teacher who during the coronavirus pandemic helped lift student morale was named the state's...

Las Cruces board selects Ramos as school superintendent

Jun. 02, 2021 10:21 AM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Interim Superintendent Ralph Ramos has been chosen as permanent superintendent of the Las Cruces public school system, filling a...

FILE- In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, employees pack boxes containing vials of Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Serum Institute of India in Pune, India. India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines, was expected to play a pivotal role in global efforts to immunize against COVID-19. But its own capacity is proving to be insufficient for its own massive needs amid a ferocious surge of new infections. In past weeks, many people wanting to get vaccines have been turned away. Experts say that this is due to bad planning. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
EXPLAINER: Why 'world's pharmacy' India is short on shots

By Aniruddha Ghosal May. 22, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

This illustration provided by LaGuardia Community College, shows a diagram in Korean explaining RNA vaccine technology used in the COVID-19 vaccines as a part of the LaGuardia Community College's second online Undergraduate Research Newsletter, which breaks down the science behind the coronavirus vaccinations. The multilingual project was spearheaded by professor Lucia Fuentes, who guided her honors biology students in researching, preparing and publishing information on the coronavirus and the vaccines developed to counter it. (LaGuardia Community College via AP)
Professor overcomes loss to craft COVID-19 student brochures

By Luis Andres Henao May. 04, 2021 04:53 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo, a relative of a person who died of COVID-19 mourns at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
'Horrible' weeks ahead as India's virus catastrophe worsens

By Aniruddha Ghosal May. 04, 2021 12:08 AM EDT

A man reads a holy book before cremating his relative who died of COVID-19, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. New infections are rising faster in India than any other place in the world, stunning authorities and capsizing its fragile health system. Overall, India has more than 15.6 million cases, the second-highest after the United States, with 182,553 deaths. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
EXPLAINER: Why India is shattering global infection records

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Krutika Pathi Apr. 22, 2021 03:27 AM EDT

Maryland schools continue comparatively slow reopening plan

By Patrick Hauf Of Capital News Service Apr. 15, 2021 05:40 PM EDT
Maryland public school students have had some of the least opportunities in the nation to attend regular in-person instruction despite the state’s moderate...

People wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus stand in queues to board trains at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. India is experiencing its worst pandemic surge, with average daily infections exceeding 143,000 over the past week. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Mumbai imposes strict virus restrictions as infections surge

By Rafiq Maqbool And Aniruddha Ghosal Apr. 14, 2021 04:28 AM EDT

People wait in queues outside the office of the Chemists Association to demand necessary supply of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir, in Pune, India, Thursday, April 8, 2021. India is experiencing its worst pandemic surge, with a seven-day rolling average of more than 130,000 cases per day. Hospitals across the country are starting to get overwhelmed with patients, and experts worry the worst is yet to come. (AP Photo)
India reels amid virus surge, affecting world vaccine supply

By Sheikh Saaliq And Aniruddha Ghosal Apr. 13, 2021 12:15 AM EDT

Graciela Leahy, 13, an eighth grader at Ohio's Columbus Gifted Academy, works on her computer in her bedroom, in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2021, to begin a stretch of nearly six straight hours at her desk. A year later in the pandemic, the unplanned experiment with distance learning continues for thousands of students like Leahy who have yet to set foot back in classrooms. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
'It's exhausting.' A year of distance learning wears thin

By Jeff Amy, Kantele Franko, Cedar Attanasio, And Carolyn Thompson Mar. 12, 2021 07:08 AM EST

WVU receives grant to study pandemic-era tutoring

Mar. 08, 2021 04:15 AM EST
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University will get a $307,000 grant to study best practices for online tutoring in science, technology, engineering and...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2021 03:39 PM EST
Boston Globe. February 17, 2021. Editorial: Massachusetts needs to test students to diagnose COVID-19 learning slide ...

Computer teacher Evi Kontopoulou uses a remote control to find "Prospathodas TV," or "Trying TV," the channel of Avlona's prison school, north of Athens, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. With Greece's schools shut due to the pandemic, all lessons have gone online. But the online world isn't within reach of everyone _ and particularly not within reach of the students of Avlona Special Youth Detention Center, where internet devices are banned by law from the cells. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
DIY education: Greek teacher creates TV classes for inmates

By Elena Becatoros Feb. 18, 2021 02:52 AM EST

Social studies teacher Logan Landry looks over the shoulder of seventh grader Simone Moore as she works on a project while seated next to a cutout of Elvis Presley at the Bruce M. Whittier Middle School, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Poland, Maine. With instruction time reduced as much as half by the coronavirus pandemic, many of the nation's middle school and high school teachers have given up on covering all the material normally included in their classes and instead are cutting lessons. Landry, put up cardboard cutouts to keep up social distancing, where instruction time has been cut in half by the hybrid model.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
As virus cuts class time, teachers have to leave out lessons

By Michael Melia Feb. 01, 2021 11:11 AM EST

Flowers line the railing placed their by visitors at the Space Mirror Memorial during a ceremony to honor fallen astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The memorial displays the names of astronauts that lost their lives furthering the cause of space exploration. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
35 years since Challenger launch disaster: 'Never forgotten'

By Marcia Dunn Jan. 28, 2021 02:56 PM EST

Rural schools struggling virtually push return to classroom

By Peter Cameron Of Wisconsin Watch Jan. 23, 2021 01:01 AM EST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Andy and Amy Jo Hellenbrand live on a little farm in south-central Wisconsin where they raise corn, soybeans, wheat, heifers, chickens,...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks to a joint session of the legislature at the start of a special session on education, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Education in virus era dominates Tennessee special session

By Kimberlee Kruesi And Jonathan Mattise Jan. 19, 2021 05:45 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Dec. 28, 2020 10:00 AM EST
Des Moines Register. Dec. 23, 2020. Editorial: State lawmakers should not meet in person until vaccines are available to most Iowans. In...

Oklahoma school report cards suspended, student tests go on

Dec. 18, 2020 09:21 AM EST
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Board of Education has suspended the state’s school report cards, but will continue with year-end testing of students. ...