University of Nevada, Las Vegas associate professor of architecture Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez is no stranger to teaching awards the list is long and full of prestigious titles. In November, it got a little longer when he was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
“We found ourselves saying, ‘If this was my school, I’d do it this way,’ ” Lana Strong said of teaching in public school. So she and her fellow teacher, Aja Staniszewski, decided to do something about it.
The 6-year-old boy whose foot was run over by a school bus Monday morning was throwing rocks at cars from the median, darting in front of traffic and essentially ran into the bus, witnesses told investigators.
Everything seems tranquil on the surface of Quest Academy, where a shielded crest hangs over the front door and children scurry around in matching khaki shorts, skirts and polo shirts.
Clark County school officials want to change several rules regarding charter schools and online classes, according to a pair of bill draft requests the district is backing for the Nevada Legislature’s 2013 session.
The Nevada State Education Association jumped the first of two big hurdles Friday in its race to force the state Legislature to consider adopting an $800 million-a-year tax increase for public schools.
Vocabulary isn’t a strong suit for Nevada students, whose average scores on a redesigned test beat only a handful of other states, according to the Nation’s Report Card released this week by the U.S. Department of Education.
Nevada Supreme Court justices grilled attorneys Wednesday in a high-profile case that will put to rest whether 150,000 Nevadans were duped into supporting a business tax initiative that was “incomplete, deceptive, (and) misleading,” in the words of a lower court judge who threw out the petition in October.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation recently honored 251 schools from 25 states for efforts to create a healthier environment for students. Clark County schools receiving recognition were Sewell and Lunt elementary schools and Northwest Career and Technical Academy.
It comes as no shock to Jacqueline Duarte that the employment rate among youths is the lowest since World War II.
UNLV graduate student Lauren Adkins plans to marry a cardboard cutout of the Edward Cullen character from the “Twilight” saga as a performance art piece for her master’s thesis project.
On paper, Booker Elementary School is exceptional, exceeding standards with four out of five stars, according to the district’s assessment.
