In The News: College of Education

Evanston RoundTable

All the experts who spoke to the RoundTable said private schools like Alpha tend to enroll high-achieving students to begin with, and sometimes remove students who do not keep up with their peers. While there’s nothing improper about that practice, it can raise average test scores.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Parents, principals and school staff alike have been coping with the Clark County School District’s Sept. 11 announcement of an imminent districtwide budget reduction of $51.6 million.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of the educational experience, helping students explain difficult concepts, brainstorm ideas and create study guides in seconds.

Texas Observer

The State of Texas's latest takeovers of four school districts, including Fort Worth, Beaumont, Lake Worth, and Connally Independent School Districts (ISDs) have already had a direct cost to local taxpayers.

Nevada Current

Back-to-school season kicked off with an opening ceremony for the Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus on Wednesday at UNLV. The Marlow campus is an expansion of the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool. The new campus will serve up to 80 additional preschool students and include space for early childhood and special education research.

Las Vegas Sun

The 12,500-square-foot Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus will serve as the hub for childcare and early childhood education learning opportunities at UNLV. The campus features multiple colorful buildings housing a conference room with smart technology; family lounges full of seating and activities for children; outdoor playground areas; green spaces; and more classrooms than the previous building.

Las Vegas Sun

It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.

Las Vegas Sun

It took eight toddlers to hold the line. Standing between UNLV Interim Dean Chris Heavey and Joseph Morgan, interim dean of the College of Education, on Wednesday afternoon the children clutched a chain of colorful paper rings stretched across the entrance of the brand new Marlow Early Childhood Education Campus — until Morgan tore it in half, opening a new home for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center and the UNLV/CSUN Preschool.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

It’s a project that adds space for 80 more little Rebels this fall and increases the campus’ total capacity from nearly 200 to more than 300 children, from 6-week-old infants to 5-year-old preschoolers.

KNPR News

In 39 days spanning the months of June and July 2026, big-screen broadcasts, sights of colorful jerseys, and sounds of cheerful fans were nearly impossible to miss in Las Vegas. 

KNPR News

Students from UNLV’s Colleges of Fine Arts and Education collaborated to create hands-on learning experiences for children enrolled at the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center.

The Economic Times

According to a 2017 study, ‘The Effects of Doodling on Recall Ability,’ by Jason Boggs, Jillian Cohen and Gwen Marchand at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, published in the journal Psychological Thought, free-form, unstructured doodling actually led to worse recall than either structured shading or plain note-taking. The type of doodling matters quite a bit.