In The News: College of Education
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After years of bottom-of-the-barrel education rankings, Nevada lawmakers adopted a number of reforms in 2015, including increased funding for low-income students and English language learners, universal education savings accounts, and the creation of a statewide district to take over failing schools.
Ideas are brewing for Makenzi Solis.
She wants to research new ways to help special education students learn in general education classrooms.
EDGAR investigates how Michael Jordan paved the way for the likes of Usain Bolt and Roger Federer to make millions from sponsorship.
Tennis stars Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic each got $3.8 million for winning the US Open over the weekend. Wimbledon also awards equal prize money to male and female winners. But tennis is unusual in professional sports. The winner’s prize for women in major golf tournaments like the British Open or US Open is less than half what the men win. The US Women’s Soccer Team has won far more World Cup titles and Olympic gold medals than their male counterparts – and the women even bring in more profits for US Soccer - yet the women get paid less than the men. Over on the basketball court, the minimum salary for an NBA player is $838,000. That’s eight times what the very highest WNBA player earns.
The WNBA’s growing popularity has made pay equity a hot topic in the sport, and over the course of this season, several players have drawn attention to the issue.
As interest and stability increase for WNBA, so do calls for bigger salaries, expansion
The middle schoolers bustled into the classroom at 8:30 a.m.
Students inside Somerset Academy in North Las Vegas sat inside the classroom on a hot Thursday morning.
New teachers have been practicing in classrooms most of June as part of UNLV's Rebel Academy.
UNLV has put students on the fast track to becoming teachers. This comes as CCSD revealed it has more than 800 open positions in the classroom.
The Clark County School District may start the year with hundreds of teacher vacancies but UNLV is aiming to fill some of those spots with its fast track teacher certification program.