In The News: College of Education
New Orleans and Miami have played host to the Super Bowl a combined total of nearly two dozen times. Officials in those cities are well versed in the planning and coordinating needed to welcome hundreds of thousands visitors for a weeklong celebration of football.
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A 2020 Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» study recruited those suffering from substance use disorder to participate in a 14-week exercise training program that would conclude with them participating in a race.
Access to mental health services in Nevada is atrocious. The state ranks 51st nationally in overall mental health and last again for similar categories in youth mental health. Statewide, there is one mental health professional for every 460 residents, and every Nevada county is federally designated as having a mental health provider shortage. Unfortunately, this is not news.
Shop classes may soon be available to some Henderson high school students, after a decision from the city’s planning commission.
The Clark County School District is expecting about 10,000 fewer students this year than last school year, which would mark the sixth consecutive enrollment decline.
Going into the 2022-23 year, CCSD has nearly 1,400 teacher openings. Since then, human resources has hired another recruiter, bringing the team up to six people; enlisted principals to help market their campuses and join recruiting trips around the country; expanded the district’s foreign teacher visa program by about 100 more international teachers; and graduated two cohorts of support staffers who want to become full-time licensed teachers through a program with UNLV.
When does school start? It's not such a simple question for students and parents around the country. While many U.S. schools embrace a 180-day academic calendar, the first day of classes at K-12 districts can stretch from mid-July to early September, depending on the city or state, climate or even whether teachers and students are at risk for burnout.
After a supreme court ruling in June, colleges can no longer use race, or ask about race when considering students for admission.
To realize this dream, she went back to school, completing her bachelor's degree in just one year through UNLV's Paraprofessional Pathways Project. The program helps fast-track the transition to teaching, to help with the rampant turnover we're seeing in schools.
Nevada Gold Mines donated $100,000 to the Public Education Foundation (PEF) to support current paraprofessionals and guest teachers to become licensed educators through PEF's Teacher Pathway program. Teacher Pathway recruits, supports, and retains diverse, qualified individuals committed to a teaching career in partnership with Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» (UNLV) and Clark County School District (CCSD).
Five autism charities will receive proceeds from the event, including Project FOCUS at the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at UNLV, The Hope Fund - a division of International Hyperbarics Association, The Rich Center for Autism at Youngstown State University, National Autism Association of Southeast Ohio, and Autism Speaks.