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Archbishop Stepinac High School, in White Plains, N.Y., is one of the first schools in the U.S. to do away with paper textbooks. Instead, the all-boys prep school requires students to use tablets and laptops in class. (Data provided by Statista.com.)

Archbishop Stepinac High School, in White Plains, N.Y., is one of the first schools in the U.S. to do away with paper textbooks. Instead, the all-boys prep school requires students to use tablets and laptops in class. (Data provided by Statista.com.)

A digital dissection manual, published by a professor and students at Columbia's medical college, aims to improve the gross anatomy student experience. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.

A digital dissection manual, published by a professor and students at Columbia's medical college, aims to improve the gross anatomy student experience. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.

Millions of people around the world are now enrolled in massive open online course, commonly referred to as MOOCs, and that number is growing. But just how much do students learn from them? WSJ's Jason Bellini has the Short Answer.

Anant Agarwal, the founder and president of edX, an online education company, shares what he considers the top six advantages of online learning.

Millions of people around the world are now enrolled in massive open online course, commonly referred to as MOOCs, and that number is growing. But just how much do students learn from them? WSJ's Jason Bellini has the Short Answer.

Anant Agarwal, the founder and president of edX, an online education company, shares what he considers the top six advantages of online learning.

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Does a "filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance" sound like something you might be interested in eating? Most FDA staff inspecting food imported into the U.S. have been furloughed during the shutdown, so now might be your chance.

3/4/14 update: Gravity got a lot of love at this year's Oscars, including a best-director award for Alfonso Cuarón and well-earned nods also for cinematography and film editing. Looking back at the movie now, I have two big thoughts. First--no, it cannot happen for real. The space-debris disaster scenario and the orbit-hopping from shuttle to station to station are not physically possible. And second--that artificiality is far less important than the deeper realism of Gravity, which does an exqu