Education
Las Vegas elementary school students put their literary knowledge to the test, participating in a quiz competition on eight books on May 20 at Fertitta Middle School.
About 80 teachers from across the Las Vegas Valley presented their findings after months of unorthodox teaching practices at the fifth annual Best Practices Action Research Data Fair at the Springs Preserve May 13.
Spread the Word Nevada recently adopted its 24th school, Cortez Elementary School, 4245 E. Tonopah Ave. Laurie Hartig, a former librarian for 13 years at McCaw Elementary School in Henderson and an elementary teacher before that, started the nonprofit book distribution program in February 2001.
Harmon Elementary School is one of the Clark County School District’s eight dual-language schools, designed to help students become bilingual and biliterate, able to speak, read and write in both English and Spanish.
In this downright Darwinian job-hunting environment, here’s another skill job seekers might want to add to their arsenals: Minding their manners.
Southern Nevada’s bread-and-butter industry gets relatively low marks for its earnings prospects in a sweeping national study of college majors and their salary potential.
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