Education
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FORUM PLANNED
David “DJ” Helmick, Coronado High School
Taylor Beck, The Meadows School
Two UNLV researchers have provided more evidence that we human beings have a lot to learn about what’s going on out there.
Nearly 3,000 UNLV students walked in their spring graduation commencement on Saturday. Two ceremonies were held at the Thomas & Mack Center.
With more than 40 percent of Clark County’s 308,000 public school students being Latino, the group outnumbers all other individual ethnicities in the fifth-largest school district in the United States.
Jason Kim chuckles at the one B allotment he gave himself at the beginning of high school. But he couldn’t do worse than his older sister, now attending medical school at Loma Linda University.
Creating an objective system for evaluating Nevada teachers has proven to be a “gargantuan challenge” because 70 percent of teachers don’t administer standardized tests to their students.
Fifth-grader Gustavo Reyes mouths words into a classroom computer as his “papi” does the same thing.
Just one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors pass the rigorous selection process to receive the National Merit Scholarship, but seven Clark County School District students have landed the $2,500 prize.
