Six preschoolers on Monday morning donned tiny yellow hard hats and picked up miniature plastic shovels while digging into a small pile of dirt outside the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center at UNLV.

UNLV’s College of Education held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for a new project to expand its on-campus preschool. The project is a part of the university’s commitment to meet the childcare and educational needs of families throughout Southern Nevada.

UNLV’s College of Education held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for a new project to expand its on-campus preschool. The project is a part of the university’s commitment to meet the childcare and educational needs of families throughout Southern Nevada.

According to the National Association of School Psychologists, Nevada faces a significant shortage of school psychologists. Only one psychologist is available for every 2,000 students, far from the recommended ratio of one per 500 students.

What happens when three Asian American women math educators come together to reflect on their journeys, activism, and the role of mathematics in justice? In this powerful episode, Dr. Kari Kokka—math educator, social justice advocate, and former high school teacher—joins hosts Shari Kaku and Michelle Lo for an inspiring conversation about searching for our own stories, math identity, and community organizing.

The Las Vegas Aces have traded fan favorite Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks as part of a three-team deal that also involves the Seattle Storm.

Homework and extracurricular activities can be a balance for teachers and students in order to be productive, but how much is too much? Experts shared with 8 News Now how the wrong kind or amount of homework can backfire on teachers and students.

When kids get home from school, a lot of parents help them with homework. It can be a grind, especially with all their extracurricular activities.

A national teachers union leader came to UNLV this week to learn more about how the university is answering the call to get more educators in classrooms through less-traditional routes.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, will visit the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Tuesday, January 7. She plans to observe the Nevada Forward program, a teacher apprenticeship initiative that serves as a national model for addressing the teacher shortage and diversifying the educator workforce.

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher said, he “blew it out of the water.”

It’s been more than a year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that struck down affirmative action in colleges and universities, and the consequences of that ruling have finally reached the surface.