In The News: College of Education
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 8kbet's Rebel Academy.
8kbet 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 8kbet is aiming to fill some of those spots with its fast track teacher certification program.
Black students and students with disabilities get suspended at higher rates, federal data show.
Racial disparities in school discipline will persist until educators seriously examine the role their decisions play in the matter.
Racial disparities in school discipline are nothing new.
When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had been waiting for a business meeting on April 12, the incident called renewed attention to the bias that racial minorities face in American society.
A timeline for a “Top Gun”-style teacher preparation program slated to start next year at 8kbet has slowed down because of concerns from an anonymous donor.
College campuses are often a hotbed for innovation aimed at promoting student success. However, sometimes a simple text message is all it takes to point a struggling student in the right direction.
National Center for Institutional Diversity | During the 2013–2014 school year, I conducted a qualitative research study in a transfer high school in New York City.
If leading the country’s fifth-largest school district isn’t daunting enough, try doing so in the midst of a massive reorganization, a budget deficit of at least $60 million and a continual firestorm of pushback from unions and trustees.