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College of Education News

The College of Education creates an intellectual environment that promotes quality instruction, significant research, and professional service. With four unique departments, graduates receive the necessary tools and experiences to make an impact on local, national, and global scales.

Current Education News

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GeoPaths program leads to more student-centered and interactive Earth science classes.

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News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.

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The two-time alumnus and now doctoral student helps show prospective Rebels everything UNLV has to offer as assistant director for visitor experience and engagement.

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Students compete through hands-on STEM projects while learning about the possibilities of a UNLV education.

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Athletics |

Nearly 35 years after shining on the softball diamond, Christine Parris returns to campus for a well-deserved induction into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame.

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The longtime student advisor is the 2024 Senior Administrative Faculty of the Year.

Education In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

UNLV understands the pathway to teaching is not the same for everyone. That’s why the university is trying to make it easier early on by offering different options to those interested in teaching.

Diverse

It’s been a year of missteps, miscalculations, confusion, delays, glitches, and frustration after the botched launch of the simplified FAFSA, which has prevented financial aid packages from being awarded to students with ample time to make plans for their future.

Deutschlandfunk

Five defeats and no wins - that's how the first professional season for basketball star Caitlin Clark started. She didn't score as she usually does and rarely found a rhythm with her teammates. And the criticism of the 22-year-old player is already piling up - with no grace period: Is she too small for the professional league? Too delicate? Too weak? Can she not handle the pressure of expectations? Is there racism behind all the hype about the white player, which deliberately overlooks black players with greater talent?

Nevada Business

For the longest time, we’ve thought about the marriage between sports and educational institutions on a competitive level. From Friday Night Lights with high school football, to Saturday afternoons in college, to the madness in March with NCAA basketball. The representation of schools in the form of athletic competition has always united student bodies, but even more so, has been an added source of entertainment.

City Cast Las Vegas

On Friday, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced an unprecedented new sponsorship program: $100k to each of the Las Vegas Aces players, from superstars to rookies. On the heels of that announcement, however, the WNBA confirmed that it would be investigating this sponsorship deal for possible violation of league rules. But why? Today, executive producer Sonja Cho Swanson talks with professor Nancy Lough, co-director of the UNLV Sports Innovation Institute, about the complicated rules of endorsements, sponsorships, and pay-to-play in pro sports — and how we can get to pay parity for female athletes.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson says members of her team had no idea about the surprise they were set to receive on Friday. "I don't think people really understand, but we didn't know what was going on," Wilson said after practice at the team's facility in Henderson on Monday. "Our city is behind us 100% and they're giving us what we deserve."

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Recent Education Accomplishments

Katherine A. Feather and UNLV doctoral student Julia Maranville (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and colleagues published, "Impact of COVID-19 on children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder living in the rural regions of Arizona" in the Journal or Rural Mental Health.
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published “'I really got to think about my background, their background, and how do we come together on something?': One emergent mathematics teacher leader's reflexive journey with Social Justice Mathematics" in the School Science and Mathematics journal.
Sarah Wolff and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Justifying Responses Affects the Relationship Between Confidence and Accuracy" in Experimental Psychology. In this they examine the effects of asking test takers to justify why their response maybe accurate or inaccurate. 
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Joshua Baker (Education) received a $5,000 grant from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for a project focused on expanding the implementation of a behavior approach within Clark County to help reduce patients’ resistances to dental treatments. Research provides sufficient evidence that a…
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleague published an article titled, "Leading Virtual Schools: Unique Challenges, Activities, and Preparation Needs of Virtual School Principals" in the American Journal of Distance Education. This article examines how virtual school principals reported supporting…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a session on diversifying the leadership pipeline for minority leaders at the 2nd Annual Voices for Equity Conference. Montoya's presentation focused on the crucial need for systemic changes within educational institutions to support and advance…