There’s still plenty of pomp and circumstance, inspiring words from lofty speakers and tossing tassels, but graduating from college today is very different from a generation or so ago.
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The College of Southern Nevada’s Faculty Senate has unanimously passed a resolution requesting that community colleges remain within the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Four Nevada students are among the 2014 winners of scholarships from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which annually awards scholarships to 1,000 minority students below an income limit. The scholarships also will pay for graduate school in computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science.
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite, according to new studies that cite a “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Jordan Coppert may be only a junior at Faith Lutheran High School, but he’s already impacting the lives of others. A member of the school’s football team, Coppert said he wanted students on financial aid to experience school sports. Inspired by a student he met from India, he decided to supply athletic equipment to those in need at Faith, 2015 S. Hualapai Way.
Six years after being hired at the Adelson Educational Campus, the fourth-grade teacher’s students excel on standardized tests, she’s one of Adelson’s curriculum coordinators and she’s now being named Clark County Educator of the Month for March.
Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don’t snap that selfie. Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from taking self-portraits with their cell phones as they collect their diplomas.
Two Las Vegas Valley schools were locked down after the Nevada Highway Patrol reported a suspicious bag left on state Route 159 near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Friday afternoon.
The Board of Regents voted Friday to hire Baker and Associates LLC of Atlanta to assist in the selection of candidates for the next university president.
The Nevada State AFL-CIO, which represents 200,000 workers, voted Friday to oppose the margins tax measure to fund public education that is on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
One minute, 8-year-old Zorion Connell is talking about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s articulating math equations using Ohm’s law. On April 5, he passed the Federal Communications Commission’s amateur radio license exam.
Fifty-five colleges and universities, including Ohio State, the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, are under investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints under Title IX.
In hopes of planting knowledge about healthy eating and teaching students in the special education department about agriculture and horticulture, Gary Manning started a gardening program last month at Coronado High School.
In John Tomasello’s Storybook Theater class, children don’t just listen to him read books such as “Where the Wild Things Are.”
