CT Ed Watch

Educators Dressed as Superheroes and the Community Came Together at Plainville High School to Celebrate the New School Year

Emails Show New Haven Mayor Harp Role in School COO Hiring

Teachers Nationwide Now Have Access to Open-Source Science Curriculum

Lamont Shifts Education Focus Away From Regionalization

Girls Keep on Giving Back in Southington With School Backpack Giveaway

Bridgeport School Staff Told to Focus on Every Kid, Every Day

Ansonia-Derby School Regionalization Group Gets First Look at Scenarios

Ridgefield Schools Open With Optimistic Outlook

Ransomware Attack Hits Wolcott School Computers, District Prepared to Pay a Ransom

New Practices, Including Extended Day, Await Middletown Students

How One New Haven School’s Kids Tackled Math

Coventry Teachers Ready to Welcome Kids

Torrington High School Welcomes Freshmen for Orientation

New Norwich Superintendent Outlines Plan for the New School Year

Public Health Commissioner Won’t Release School-by-School Vaccination Data

New Haven Schools Chief Promises Academic Year to Focus on ‘The Core’

Inmates and Their Children Gather at First Family Dance in New Program at Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution

Bridgeport School Board Reverses Course on Walking Distances

Middletown High School Students Hosting Mayoral Candidates Debate

Region 12’s First Day of School Delayed

Interim School Chief Ready in Hebron

New Haven Schools to Appeal State Magnet Ruling

A Rousing Welcome for New Milner Middle Marks First Day of School in Hartford

Connecticut High School Sports Participation Drops for the First Time in Over a Decade, Mirroring National Trend

New Haven Schools Take New Teachers for a Walk, to Neighborhoods

The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health

College Board Drops Its ‘Adversity Score’ For Each Student After Backlash

Researchers Can Detect When Students Aren’t Trying on Computerized Tests

Flipped Classrooms May Exacerbate Student Achievement Gaps. Here’s How

The Student Vaping Crisis: How Schools Are Fighting Back

Unified Sports in Connecticut Rapidly Growing, Looking to Expand in Middle Schools

New Milford School Board to Pay $350,000 to Teachers in Suit

Farmington Schools Open for the Year, Among Earliest in the State

 

Back to School: What Danbury-area Parents Need to Know

After Mass Shootings in El Paso, Dayton, Back-to-School Time Brings Added Concerns About Guns, Security

Cheshire High School Best Buddies Program Recognized at National Conference

Students Get Free Backpacks, Supplies in Bridgeport as School Year Approaches

News 8’s Annual Back to School Drive

Peek Inside Hartford’s New Weaver High School, Reopening After a $133 Million Renovation

 

Alum Takes Over at Plainfield High

Stratford Schools to Offer Free Meals to All Students

Manchester School Board Chair Talks About Progress and Goals for the New School Year and His Role as the Board’s First African American Leader

Naugatuck Public Schools Welcomes New Staff

Greenwich High Health Teacher Kim Gillick Dies at 59

Ridgefield Teams Take Proactive Approach to Prevent Hazing

Donated Backpacks, Supplies to Help Norwalk Students Begin School Year

Reminder to Parents: Back-to-School Dental Health Requirement

Connecticut Shoppers Gear up for Back-to-School During Sales Tax Free Week

Some FAQs for Educators on Children’s Trauma

With New Anti-Plagiarism Tool, Google Enters Familiar Debates About Teaching Writing

Cardona Urges Superintendents to Avoid ‘Normalization of Failure’

CT Estimates Tens of Thousands of Children Could Lose Health Insurance, Free Meals Under Trump Immigration Change

In Hartford’s Youth Leadership Academy, Teens From the North End Offer Stories, Solutions to Urban Gun Violence

Among CT Schools, Shooter Preparedness a Sobering Reality

Haddam-Killingworth School District Appoints New Middle School Principal

New Milford Hires New Schaghticoke Assistant Principal

Greenwich Administrator for Gifted Students Earns National Award

$1,500-A-Day New Haven Early Childhood Education Consultant Questioned

Windham County School That Serves Students With Special Needs to Open

‘Nobody Learns It in a Day’: Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools

Why Slavery Is Mistaught — and Worse — in American Schools

What If You Could Change Your Child’s Future In One Hour Every Week?

How to Help Your Child Study

Online Simulation Preps Schools for Emotional Toll of Disasters

The State’s New Education Commissioner: Collaborator, Listener, Hard Worker

In His Own Words: Commissioner Miguel Cardona on Five Issues

 

Feds Tell Ed-Tech Companies to Turn Over Data-Collection Details

 

Doctors Advise Parents on Dealing with Back-to-School Anxiety in Children

 

EASTCONN Names New Principal

 

Hartford Youth from “the 06120” Offer Stories, Solutions to Urban Gun Violence

 

At Dunkin’ Donuts Park Celebration, the Hartford Public Schools Helped to Prepare Families for Next Week’s First Day of School

Stamford Sees Spike in Students Registering for Free, Reduced Lunch

In Drive to Increase Manufacturing Workforce, Sikorsky and Teamsters Partner to Reach High School Students

Board of Ed Panel Grills Superintendent on Problems With New Haven Schools Curriculum Audit

Social Justice Inspires Hamden Woman’s School Board Quest

A Glastonbury High Grad Has Talent and Artistic Passion. Now He’s Headed to a Prestigious Art School Thanks to the Local Community

West Hartford Teen Publishes Second Novel

States Increasingly Extend Charter-like Flexibility to District Schools

How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing?

Connecticut’s New Education Commissioner Focuses on Students

CT Teachers’ Perspectives on Common Core

Norwich History Teacher a Finalist for National Award

New Haven Magnets Seek $2,250 Tuition From Suburbs

Bridgeport Mayor Pushes Budget Transfer to Restore School Busing Cuts

New Haven Officials: Schools Deficit Decreasing, Budgeting Improving

The Hartford’s Back-to-School Giving Program Stuffs Over 1,000 Backpacks for Hartford-Area Youth

Keeler Tavern & History Center Honors Ridgefield Teacher

Region 10 Names New Superintendent of Schools

New Studies Challenge the Claim That Black Students Are Sent to Special Ed Too Much

NBC Connecticut Surveys Teachers About Classroom Spending

 

Foundation Issues Prompt Change in Start of School Year for Tolland

 

The Data Are In: Teenage Voting Hit ‘Historic’ High in 2018 Midterms

 

Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

 

Academy Aims to Equip New and Future Principals with Real-World Skills

 

BBB Touts Tips, Tax-Free Week for Back-to-School Shoppers

 

Back-to-School Boost from Hartford Block Party

 

WFSB Eyewitness News Features Back-to-School Tips from Teachers

 

Tolland Council Weighs ECS Split Between Town, Schools, Leaving Less Money for Teaching Positions

 

New Member Named to Ansonia School Regionalization Panel

 

Gun Store Advertises Assault Rifles in Back-to-School Promotion

 

‘Secret’ Payment for New Haven Curriculum Audit, Other Expenditures in Question

 

Connecticut Students Awarded Dunkin’ Scholarships

 

Haddam-Killingworth Seeks Public Input in Search for Superintendent

 

‘Clear the List’ Movement Helps Teachers Procure Classroom Supplies

 

Norwalk Group Aims to Add 100 to Mentoring Program

 

The Rise of Ransomware in Public Schools

 

High School Coaches Seek to Change Connecticut’s Off-Season Rule

 

Armed School Security Officer Approved in Ellington

 

Education Group: Repeal the Religious Exemption from Vaccination

 

Connecticut Students Explore Plastic Consumption Project

 

Connecticut Students Getting a Jump Start On STEM

What’s on School Menus This Fall? Trade Mitigation

 

Wilton Student’s Food Box Unveiled at Mall Celebration

 

Stratford Schedules Back-to-School Immunization Clinics, Physicals

 

Close Friends More Influential on Student Behavior Than Popular Kids, Study Shows

 

Manchester Students Will Return to ‘Like New,’ Bigger Elementary School

 

Several Norwich Schools Could Consolidate as City Looks to Save Money

 

New Guide Advises Schools on How to Respond to ICE Raids

 

Fundraiser to Revive JV Sports in East Windsor Brings in More Than $10,700

 

‘Growth Mindset’ Boosts Students’ Grades, Willingness to Challenge Themselves

 

Sharp Disparities and Top-10 Scores for Lyme-Old Lyme Schools in Latest Figures

 

Pearson Student Data Breach: More Than 13,000 Schools Impacted

 

Federal Office of Civil Rights to Investigate Connecticut’s High School Transgender Athlete Policy

 

Top Free App Created by Stamford Students as Part of School Project

 

Tong: State Officials in Dalio Partnership Must Share Public Records

ERfC, ShopRite ‘Stuff the Bus’ With School Supplies for Enfield Students

Shelton High School Student Starts Non-Profit to Help Out Fellow Students

Good News for Teacher-Led Effort that Raised $130K for Accessible Playground in Danbury

Bridgeport Faith Group Wants Per-School Budget Details

Plymouth Schools Accepting Applications for Free or Reduced-Price Lunch

Cheshire School Board Hires Curriculum Coordinator

Could California’s Big Investment in Children and Families Be a Model for the Country?

National Study Shows How a Simple ‘Growth Mindset’ Exercise Lifted Students’ GPAs

Teachers Prepare for Tough Classroom Conversations on the Civil War

At Wesleyan’s Girls in Science Camp, Women Are the Scientists of the Future

Lamont, Lawmakers Dodged Spending Cap to Pump $20M into Public-Private School Partnership

Connecticut SAT Numbers Barely Move

Here Are the Connecticut School Districts With the Top Scores on the SAT

Year-Round Norwalk School Plan Has Some Faculty, Families Leaving Elementary School

In Nationwide Survey Teachers Express Frustration, Say They Would Strike Over Funding

Plenty of Jobs Open in East Haven Schools If You’re Looking

New Haven Students: Give Us Chocolate Milk

Ellington Superintendent Earns Raise, Contract Extension After Positive Evaluation

ESSA Puts Pressure on Schools to Reduce Student Absences. Here’s How They Might Do It

Why a Fight Over Trump’s Housing Policy Matters to School Segregation

Incoming Kindergarten Enrollment for Lyme-Old Lyme Schools Bucks Statewide Decline

Stamford Kids Gather School Supplies for Students in Need

New Haven Picks New Principals, Leaving Two Schools Behind

East Windsor Students and Parents Start Fundraiser to ‘Take Back JV’

High School Naps May Boost Learning for Sleep-Deprived Teenagers