In The News: Department of Teaching and Learning
Professors at 性视界传媒 are on a mission to encourage more girls to pursue a career in STEM fields by hosting the Engaging Girls in Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing camp.
Laurents Ba帽uelos-Benitez can count on one hand how many teachers of color he had while growing up in east Las Vegas.
Laurents Ba帽uelos-Benitez can count on one hand how many teachers of color he had while growing up in east Las Vegas.
Laurents Ba帽uelos-Benitez can count on one hand how many teachers of color he had while growing up in east Las Vegas.
It鈥檚 happened on more than one occasion: I鈥檓 in the middle of a video call when the dreaded rainbow wheel starts spinning on my screen. The page is having trouble loading. My face is awkwardly frozen in time for all to see. The audio cuts in and out.
Clark County teachers and families are reporting big spikes in their data usage and accompanying bills during the first month of virtual education, with some saying they are exceeding caps of more than 1 terabyte offered by internet service providers like Cox.
The Clark County School District鈥檚 abrupt shift to digital learning in mid-March was especially tough on lower-income and minority students. Reportedly, nearly one-third of all students stopped learning because they didn鈥檛 have a device or internet connectivity so they could participate in the remote instruction.
In the wake of millions of people taking to the streets to protest police brutality against black Americans 鈥 the most recent example of which involved the killing of George Floyd 鈥 and demand racial justice, white parents raising white children want to know how they can encourage the next generation to do better. The key: teaching anti-racism. As activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis has stated, 鈥淚n a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.鈥
The modern American school system began in 1837 with the creation of the first state Board of Education in Massachusetts. Nearly 200 years later, the closure of schools nationwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a seismic jolt to that system, as school districts and college campuses across the country scramble to move classrooms online鈥攁nd try to replace what鈥檚 being missed.
On April 28, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada sent a letter to Gov. Steve Sisolak declaring that the state has been failing to provide an equal education to all students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most children begin the reading journey with their parents reading them bedtime stories. For a lot of children a crucial bonding moment occurs when the child is introduced to the page turn and the excitement of stories.
Sophie Ladd used a book about love and loss to help her undergraduate 性视界传媒 students open up about their feelings after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. She read 鈥淭he Heart and The Bottle,鈥 by Oliver Jeffers.