The College of Southern Nevada is experimenting with improving retention by restructuring requirements for new students.
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As director of the Shenker Academy, a preschool in Summerlin, Specht stays busy even when school’s out. She’s working now with her staff on the curriculum for the upcoming school year and hosting several daily tours for prospective families.
To some, Suzuki means a car; to others, it’s an electric keyboard. To Cynthia Man, a resident of northwest Las Vegas, it means hearing music played by young musicians. Man is the artistic director of the Desert Suzuki Institute, which instructs young students in violin, piano and flute.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, student leaders on Friday sent a letter to Hillary Clinton’s family foundation asking that she “do what is right” and donate all or part of her $225,000 speaking fee for addressing the UNLV Foundation back to the university for student benefit.
Education briefs from across the Las Vegas Valley
Simulation labs are used in nursing schools to give students realistic experience in controlled settings. The labs look like hospital rooms and mannequins serve as patients. The high-tech mannequins can simulate speech, breathing, blood pressure, heart rate and other functions.
Chairman of the UNLV stadium board Don Snyder said he’s finalized negotiations with a Dallas-area consulting company, meaning the firm can start advising the 11-member panel next month on the need, size, cost and possible funding for an on-campus stadium.
Reports of students possibly body piercing themselves with non-sterile needles at Spring Valley High School have spurred a health investigation, according a message that Principal Bob Gerye sent to parents Wednesday.
For a group of about 200 high school students, their Nov. 15 breakfast was certainly the most important meal of the day. Students from across the Las Vegas Valley met with teachers and public officials for the 2012 Mayors Prayer Breakfast at Texas Station.
Wright Elementary School was built to hold about 800 students, but today it has an enrollment of more than 1,200. If something doesn’t change, it will be forced to turn back to year-round schooling.
The Clark County School District estimated at the beginning of the summer that 2,000 seniors would take some form of summer school in an effort to graduate. In the end, a few more than 300 did, and an estimated 230 participated in an Aug. 15 graduation ceremony. One of those students was Henderson resident Oshea Alvarez, who enrolled in night school to supplement his high school classes and earn his diploma.
Alumni from Western High School’s class of 1972 are busy tracking down members for a 40th reunion planned for Oct. 19 and 20 at Texas Station.
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