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Malloy Pushes Tuition Incentives, More Rigorous Standards To Improve Teacher...
Gov.Dannel P. Malloyrolled out a $10.5 million proposal Tuesday aimed at improving the quality of Connecticut's teachers that includes tougher standards, financial incentives, professional development...
View Article2/9/2012-Drowning In Debt
As long as we're talking about education, let's talk about this important time of year. No, I'm not talking about when pitchers and catchers report to spring training. This is the time of year when...
View ArticleMiddletown: 'Scream Rooms' Will No Longer Be Used For Some Students
School officialssaid Friday that they would no longer use so-called scream rooms for students at Farm Hill School who are not in specialized programs. At a press conference Friday afternoon,...
View ArticleUnions Balk At Teacher Certification Changes
Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system. But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape...
View ArticleYale's James Bundy Pays Tribute to Earle R. Gister
Earle R. Gister, who served as Associate Dean, Chair of the Acting Department at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, and the first Lloyd Richards Professor (Adjunct) of Acting during his tenure at...
View ArticleRita Moreno Gives Students in "West Side Story" a Ring
The phone rang Monday night to a group of more than 65 high school students who were rehearsing "West Side Story" at Simsbury High School -- and it was Rita Moreno calling.e Technical problems trying...
View Article2/7/2012-Obamacare vs Catholic Church
This is an important time of year. No, I'm not talking about when pitchers and catchers report to spring training. This is the time of year when high school seniors start hearing from the colleges...
View ArticleLegislative Session Opening Day: Education Reform
Asserting that many of the state's "public schools are failing their two most basic missions: to provide children with an equal, world-class education, irrespective of race or income, and to ensure...
View ArticleExperts Call 'Scream Rooms' Untherapeutic, Harmful To Children And Others At...
Every morning Michael Sexton hears the same thing from his 8-year-old son: "Daddy, I don't want to go to school. Daddy, I don't want to go." Sexton says it's because his son, Robert, spent too much...
View ArticleGlastonbury Author, Consultant Prodding Young Professionals To Get A Job --...
Stacie Berdan left the corporate whirl five years ago to write and proselytize about importance of preparing to join a global workplace. Berdan began her career at Burson-Marsteller, the large...
View ArticleUrgent Steps Needed To Fix State's Shame: Education
This is the fifth in a series on what the state should do in 2012. Connecticut failed — in spectacular fashion — in three attempts over the past two years to qualify for millions of dollars in "Race to...
View ArticleJan. 2: Back-To-Back Losses: Edsall Hired As Football Coach At Maryland
Randy Edsall met with the UConn football team in the locker room Saturday night after the 48-20 Fiesta Bowl loss to Oklahoma, asking if anyone wanted tospeak. The captains addressed the team, and...
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