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A PhD ain’t no stinking picnic

December 21, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 5

Welcome to Academic Literacy 101. Today we’ll be talking about the tedious process of getting a terminal degree, the highest degree possible in a given field. We won’t be wasting time negating Wall Street Journal […]

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UNR students lament COVID changes

October 14, 2020 Wenei Philimon 0

Maria Stevens, a sophomore at the University of Nevada, Reno, was scared when she tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 on Oct. 6. As she filled out her reporting form, she thought about […]

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COVID classes: A teacher’s diary

August 29, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 11

My name is Sarah Bryant and I’m a Washoe County teacher. This is a day-by-day account of my activities during the first two weeks of school in Reno, a city in the grip of the […]

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Teachers wary about schools reopening

July 21, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

Teachers are dying to return to the classroom; they’d rather not risk students’ health — or their own disability or death — to do it. As Washoe County schools prepare to reopen Aug. 17 and […]

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Congress gave the new state of Nevada four million acres to pay for schools.

July 17, 2013 Dennis Myers 0

Nevada’s unsurveyed expanses made it difficult to know what properties were best. So the state arranged a trade. Sec.7. And be it further enacted, That sections numbers sixteen and thirty-six, in every township, and where […]

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Sentry

February 20, 2013 Dennis Myers 0

Nancy Moody heads the office that protects subjects of UNR research. […]

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Campus turmoil

December 26, 2012 Dennis Myers 0

Ongoing recession problems undercut faculty morale. […]

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Tales out of school

June 20, 2012 Dennis Myers 0

How journalism damages education with bad information. […]

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Schools of hard knocks

April 25, 2012 Dennis Myers 0

Education in Nevada limps along. […]

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Answered prayer

February 15, 2012 Dennis Myers 0

Neighborhood devotion and educational expansion collide. […]

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No Child gets left behind

August 17, 2011 Dennis Myers 0

State governments undercut hallmark Bush law. […]

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Educators

February 2, 2011 Dennis Myers 0

Two Nevada education leaders talk about how bad things are. […]

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