Education
Author J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” usually is not described as “industrial,” “grungy” and “punky,” but the Faith Lutheran Theatre Company’s new production of the classic tale will be just that, says technical director Erik Ball.
Gary Mayers was in a remote area of Newfoundland when he learned he was one of 97 teachers to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. He needed to be in Washington, D.C., for the three days of events that accompany the award.
His robotics teams became the first Nevada competitors at the middle school world championships in 2012. And they placed in the top 15 percent among 300 competitors.
The Clark County School District wants a $669 million property tax increase for capital projects to remodel entire schools. Is the district’s request justified at a time like this?
Hispanic and black students are usually few and far between in Gifted and Talented Education programs, but they’re becoming more common in the Clark County School District.
There are the famous three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. That’s old school. Inside University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ human sexuality class, it’s about the three P’s: polygamy, polyandry and polygyny. That’s new school.
More than 60,000 Nevadans were deceived and misled into signing their support to a tax initiative that organizers claimed would generate $800 million for public schools, according to a state judge who struck down the initiative Tuesday.
Dana Gordin has met a lot of principals, but none like Paula Naegle of Webb Middle School. Gordin, the mother of two boys with food allergies, said raising them safely in public schools was a challenge. She credits Naegle, who recently received a Golden Hand Service Award, with making a difference by being a leading advocate in the Clark County School District for safety for students with food allergies.
Sponsored by the Department of Defense, Starbase Nellis is an education program that provides students with 25 hours of classroom learning and experiments, while introducing them to careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
An unlikely club at an unlikely school has students going green. Senior Kevin Olvarez started an environmental club last December at Burk Horizon High School, an alternative, behavioral and second-chance school for about 200 students, to promote conservation and recycling around campus.