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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With New Mexico schools shut down for the rest of the school year due to the coronavirus outbreak, three public television stations on Monday will begin broadcasting class lessons for home learning for students in grades...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hector Chapa, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) With the coronavirus pandemic quickly spreading, U.S. health officials have...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 6, 2020-- Room to Read, a global organization focused on children's literacy and girls' education, has released a library of celebrity read-aloud videos alongside hundreds of free digitized children's books,...

The IRS and the Treasury Department say Americans will start receiving their economic impact checks within the next few weeks. The payments are part of the $2.2 trillion rescue package signed into law last week by President Donald Trump aimed at...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma newspaper has apologized and retracted a story intended as an April Fools' prank that claimed all students in one Tulsa-area school district must repeat their current grade level. All schools in Oklahoma have been...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State brought back former player Shane Southwell as an assistant basketball coach Tuesday, rounding out Bruce Weber's staff after Brad Korn left to become the head coach at Southeast Missouri. Southwell was a standout...

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — The cattle industry has played as major a role in the history of the Black Hills as the gold rush of 1876, and it continues to shape that history to this day. Aaron Thompson is one Black Hills rancher keeping that history...

As an uneasy March unspooled, as coronavirus dread descended upon the United States, it became commonplace — and, for public figures, quite practical — to point out how, unlike most major events in the 21st century, this was an unusually...

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas school district is suspending its grab-and-go sack lunch program for a week after a worker with the district's drive-thu program tested positive for the coronavirus. The Tonganoxie school district said in...

OAKLAND, California (AP) — "When are we going to the playground, Mama?" she asks again today, like she did yesterday and the day before that. I tell her we are not going to the playground today, that we can go for a walk, remember the virus we...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jon Pedersen, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Most of the school systems that shut their doors due to the COVID-19...

Change came to the United States of America during the third week of March in 2020. It did not come all at once, though it came quite rapidly. As had happened in other lands, there was no explosion, no invasion other than a microscopic one that... Full story

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Christopher "Chris" Stanley is an associate professor of art at the University of Texas Permian Basin, but that identity falls far short of telling who he is. Tracing his development to experiences when he was 14 and in his...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma education officials are working with administrators to form a remote-learning plan to prepare for the likely extended school shutdown amid public health concerns spurred by the new coronavirus pandemic. The Oklahoma...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As most of the U.S. raced to get ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, conservative Republican lawmakers in Kansas moved Wednesday to limit their Democratic governor's emergency powers, including the ability to establish...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus, Johnson County Community College has hired a new president. The college's Board of Trustees on Thursday selected Andrew Bowne, who is currently senior vice president of...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As most of the U.S. raced to get ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, conservative Republican lawmakers in Kansas moved Wednesday to limit their Democratic governor's emergency powers, including the ability to establish...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Tahlequah was recently a stop on an 18-day field trip for seven middle-schoolers from a small school in Burnsville, North Carolina. The theme is "forced migrations," and one of the leaders, Brad Archer, is a graduate of...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents called racial slurs that two professors used in their classrooms "disgusting" during its first meeting since dozens of students staged a sit-in outside the school's administrative...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The good news for Kansas public colleges: 1,000 more Latino students will be enrolled a decade from now, enough to fill the seats left empty by fewer white students. The bad news? The state predicts fewer students will earn a d...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas forcefully objected to charges that its storied men's basketball program, currently No. 1 in the nation, and its football programs had committed significant violations tied primarily to recruiting when...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, school resource officer faces a maximum of just over 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes against children. Michael Eugene English Sr. pleaded guilty Monday to three counts...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas has settled an age discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a former employee who said he was ousted in retaliation for raising the alarm that his department was told to fill job openings with...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Dozens of students at the University of Oklahoma have ended a sit-in outside the university's administrative offices following two instances in which professors used racial slurs in their classrooms. The three-day sit-in...