Nevada higher education leaders on Thursday approved starting the planning process for a University of Nevada, Las Vegas Medical School.
Education
The largest private school in the Las Vegas Valley will celebrate the groundbreaking of an $8.75 million athletic complex project today.
Hispanic community leaders showed in force Thursday and successfully lobbied the Clark County School Board to fill an empty board seat with the candidate they support – Stavan Corbett.
With cuts across her arms and suicide on her mind, Jesse Dawson was finally ready to tell someone about the bullies who persecuted her for five years.
Clark County public schools may be struggling according to almost every assessment, but they have a “chance to break through,” according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who visited the nation’s fifth-largest school district for the first time in more than two years on Wednesday.
Teens from Asian nations dominated a global exam given to 15-year-olds, while U.S. students showed little improvement and failed to reach the top 20 in math, science or reading, according to test results released Tuesday.
UNLV’s Faculty Senate wants an acting president to be appointed and a national presidential search to begin as soon as possible to replace President Neal Smatresk.
The 2014 Nevada Teacher of the Year award will be named in honor of Michael Landsberry, the teacher who died putting himself between a shooter and students at Sparks Middle School earlier this year.
A member of the Nevada State Board of Education is willing to step down from his governor-appointed post to join the Clark County School Board.
Ke’Andre Blackston Jr. was multiplying by the time he was 5 years old.
Earth science teacher Megan Krier leaves her classroom once a day to meet with Western High School’s student council in a back room that serves as a graveyard for canceled programs.
Tasha Schwikert and Matt Sheahan each recently won a lucrative $75,000 scholarship from the Las Vegas Business Academy, a nonprofit organization founded by businessman Rino Armeni to graduate students pursuing business, hotel administration and law degrees who are “tuition challenged.”
Reports of students possibly body piercing themselves with non-sterile needles at Spring Valley High School have spurred a health investigation, according a message that Principal Bob Gerye sent to parents Wednesday.
Students at Coronado High School who were tested for tuberculosis Nov. 19 were retested Tuesday after a problem with the original tests.
A Smith College senior from Southern Nevada says she feels “overwhelmed” after becoming the first Rhodes Scholar from the United States in the 143-year history of the prestigious women’s school in Northampton, Mass.
LISTEN TO THE TOP FIVE HERE
SPONSORED BY BEST MATTRESS
