DOWNTOWN PROJECT
This week, the Las Vegas Valley chapter is celebrating national Teach for America week with guest teachers spending time in the classrooms of local corps members. Guest teachers include CCSD Superintendent Dwight Jones, the district’s deputy superintendent and CTO, as well as executives from Bank of America and NV Energy. Community leaders from the Caesars [...]
Many of the ideas being put into action to revitalize Downtown are informed by Edward Glaeser’s 2011 book about the ways in which cities enrich the lives of those who call them home. The very subtitle of the Harvard economist’s master work Triumph of the City is a list of adjectives that most of us [...]
Education is central to the redevelopment of any urban area. Downtown Las Vegas is no exception. As Edward Glaeser writes in Triumph of the City, “For cities, investing in schooling yields two payoffs. Students acquire more skills, which eventually makes the place more productive. Better schools also attract better-educated parents, who make the place more [...]
