Scholars Working OverTime uses old school techniques to make learning stick for its dedicated students, and a campaign called Indiegogo gives them hope for a computer lab to take the next leap forward.
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The Sparks Middle School student who killed a teacher and wounded two classmates before turning the gun on himself appeared to be a typical 12-year-old who liked soccer, was good at video games and didn’t have a lot of friends but “didn’t seem to be a loner,” a friend said Friday.
Students soon will have to take state-required tests online instead of on paper. That will cost money, so the Clark County School District is applying for $3.35 million from a state educational technology fund to make that happen over the next two years. Clark County School Board members unanimously agreed Thursday to send the application to the Nevada Department of Education seeking the financial aid.
South-central Las Vegas won’t be represented on the Clark County School Board until at least Dec. 5 because of the abrupt resignation of Lorraine Alderman, who gave six days’ notice and a vague explanation for her sudden departure.
Seven Clark County School District employees have been subpoenaed in the state’s growing investigation of a Las Vegas school where student test scores rose dramatically in 2011-12, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Everything about it screamed political rally, except the screams themselves. High-pitched shrieks erupted not from fervent voters and die hard party-liners, but from 2,000 fifth- and seventh-graders. Similar to a political party’s rally, they gathered to take a stand on school policies from dress codes to whether they should be forced to eat healthy lunches and the effectiveness of student suspensions.
A procession of priests, nuns, Knights of Columbus and parishioners followed the bishop Sunday morning as he led them from Mass to the fledgling Catholic school next door.
A Texas high school football coach whose team won its last game 91-0 says a district investigation has found “no grounds” to support a bullying complaint filed by a parent of the losing team.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ entry into its first-ever design-build competition was a success, judging by the public’s reaction and the judges’.
Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday.
A 24-pack of stress balls sits in the office of Laure Forsberg, principal of Fitzgerald Elementary School.
The state’s Board of Regents on Friday approved a shrinking budget for the next biennium for Western Nevada College during a special meeting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Lorraine Alderman announced her resignation Thursday from the Clark County School Board overseeing the nation’s fifth-largest school system, effective Oct. 23.
The Leader in Me, which has started branching out into preschools and middle schools, is one of “literally dozens” of programs seeking to improve the school climate, said Paul Baumann, director of the National Center for Learning and Civic Engagement.
In 2010, Lea Williams decided to finish what she had started 20 years earlier — her bachelor’s degree in education. The bad economy and the Grant-in-Aid program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas spurred her return to the classroom. The program, funded by the state, provides educational assistance to academic faculty, professional employees, classified employees and part-time employees and instructors.
