Education
To help keep the Earth clean, kids at the Goddard School in Henderson spent March learning how to conserve energy by eating without the lights on and recycling.
For one day every year, Las Vegas High School history teacher Dan Robinson and his students transform a classroom at the school at 6500 E. Sahara Ave. into a Holocaust museum.
Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School student Alex Giuliani is prepping for the Las Vegas Open and Southwest Regional Benchpress, Deadlift and Pushpull Championship, set for May 6 at CrossFit Las Vegas. He hopes to surpass the raw deadlift record of 460 pounds in the 13-to-15 age division for 198 pounds or under.
UNLV anthropology professor Alyssa Crittenden recently published a study that suggests honey played a bigger part in the rise of big-brained humans than anyone previously thought.
It doesn’t take a college education to understand that sex sells. Like it or not, UNLV students are surrounded by the temptations of Sin City and its lights, lust and liquor. And if sex sells, then stripping can surely pay the bills.
Only 29 percent of the charter school’s students passed Nevada standardized tests in reading last year.
Superintendent Dwight Jones on Wednesday was told to chisel away between 200 to 1,350 Clark County School District positions when the time soon comes. The School Board unanimously adopted a tentative $2.05 billion budget based on expected cost increases and diminished revenue. Board members also gave Jones the go ahead to make any “necessary reductions in force.”
It’s official. School police’s salaries will be frozen from this school year through 2012-13, saving a cash-poor Clark County School District $872,000 in combination with other concessions.
There’s a 50-50 chance the next president of Nevada State College will already have a personal connection to Nevada.
Two Las Vegas high school teachers are participating in a summer scientific research program through the multinational Siemens Corporation.
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