Taking a highly political job at age 75 has an advantage – freedom, said Nevada’s new Superintendent of Public Schools James Guthrie, who revealed five changes in store for the nation’s bottom-ranked educational system in a speech Tuesday.
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The school librarian or the auto shop class? One had to go.
To help struggling students, this school is giving Monopoly a chance. Rather, Hendersonopoly. Newton Elementary School, 571 Greenway Road, is creating a hyperlocal version of the popular board game using Henderson businesses, officials and patrons to fill its board.
The Chinese students had not been in America for 24 hours, and already they were being forced to fend for themselves. The 10 students were each given five $1 bills to order a snack from Starbucks or McDonald’s, without any help from their American counterparts. It was part of a two-week immersion program, USA Ready Study, being hosted by the Adelson Educational Campus, 9700 W. Hillpointe Road.
With school out for the summer, Clark County School District trustees are spending a little quality time with students outside the classroom through the district’s new initiative, Trustees Teach: Education Through Exploration, a series of student events that trustees will participate in before school starts Aug. 27. The first event, the Self Esteem and Etiquette Workshop, was July 17 at Nehemiah Ministries.
Local libraries and museums are looking for help from the community to document local black history. They will take memories, photos, artifacts and anything else to help tell the story of black people in Southern Nevada.
The expected three- to five-year project is a collaboration among University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, the Nevada State Museum, Henderson Libraries, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the city of Las Vegas and Vegas PBS.
Pat Skorkowsky is the new deputy superintendent of the Clark County School District.
Wanda Mallard, a Southeast Career Technical Academy math teacher, was part of a group of Clark County educators who recently received training on energy efficiency.
Nevada’s ranking for public education has hit rock bottom, according to a new national study on children’s well-being.
Clark County School District is banking on new leadership to help four struggling “turnaround” schools. In a way, being some of the consistently lowest-performing schools is the best thing that could have happened to them.
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