The Science Bowl has rules — no notes, no calculators and no second chances. That’s OK because the team from The Meadows School didn’t need any of those things. In April, five of its upper school students are set to travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Science Bowl Finals. Hyde Park Middle School’s team also earned a spot in the competition.
Roughly 37 million in the U.S. are saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, and they may never catch up with wealthy peers who began life after college free from the burden.
A person at Liberty High School was diagnosed with an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis, according to the Southern Nevada Health District and the Clark County School District.
A consultant will be hired to perform a national search for the next president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to a unanimous decision of the Board of Regent members on the president search committee.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas will join in the International Edible Book Festival for the first time on Tuesday at the Lied Library.
To encourage undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, National Security Technologies donated $50,000 to UNLV to create scholarships that that will attract top-performing students and promote national-security-related research.
Priscilla Rocha may be the focal point of a criminal investigation for suspected misuse of public school funds, but she seems to be more of a political target, asserts Andres Mendoza, deputy director of Nevada’s League of United Latin American Citizens.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2016, on Thursday will visit a high-achieving high school in Las Vegas and meet with Nevada education leaders.
UNLV’s School of Engineering will debut a minor in unmanned autonomous systems, or drones, in the fall. By spring 2015, the program should be available as a continuing education certificate for those seeking a career change.
Tangled in a criminal investigation for potential misuse of taxpayer funds, the Clark County School District’s Adult English Language Acquisition department has been shut down, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said in a news conference Monday.
Lightly swinging in a hammock in his backyard with a social studies book propped up in his lap, 13-year-old Devon Kisfalvi is actually having another productive day at Nevada Connections Academy, a virtual school.
A 24-year-old Donald Snyder told his new wife, Dee, that he would one day be president of a bank. That helped them plan and build a successful marriage and life together, but even he couldn’t have imagined the heights his career would reach in the next four decades. Now 66, he sits as the acting president of UNLV, having paved an oft-heralded executive trail through the corporate and academic world.
Las Vegas Academy teacher honored as teacher of the month for her innovative approach to the classroom.
