In chess, each move brings with it consequences that may help or hurt you. Shawn Smith, assistant principal at the 100 Academy of Excellence, is trying to get kids to apply that to life. Smith runs the mentor program for the 100 Black Men of Las Vegas, a nonprofit group that supports young people, male and female, of all ethnicities.
Gifted and Talented Education students at Hoggard Elementary School spent the past two years creating a museum in an unused classroom. It is home to nine exhibits featuring rocks, fossils, the Las Vegas Wash, Mark Twain, antiques, Native Americans, Hoover Dam, mining and the Nevada Test Site.
Teachers across the Las Vegas Valley are turning to second jobs — from ushering to bouncer and cocktail server jobs on the Strip — to supplement their Clark County School District paychecks.
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There’s this guy in the marriage and family therapy program at UNLV, Jordan Staples, who is 28 and from Utah. Last year, he was looking at graduate level university programs that were close to home.
Four dozen tenured UNLV professors officially quit their jobs last week. This was not a mass uprising against the university’s administration or some sort of statement of academic solidarity. It was simple economics paired with timing.
Desert Rose Adult High School and Career Center held a formal ceremony for the 2,600 adult education students who graduated during the past school year. The graduates included an 89-year-old man who said he once wrote jokes for comedian Bob Hope, a homeless teen and a Spanish-speaking homemaker who was embarrassed at having her children translate for her.
With more than 60,000 kids who used to be on a 12-month school schedule now out of class during the summer months for the first time, parents may be wondering what options they have. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas and Henderson offer an inexpensive program to help keep kids occupied.
Eric Mason was sleeping under bridges six years ago. Last month he graduated from Nevada State College with a near perfect GPA and was given the Nevada Regents’ Scholar Award.
