Hartford Courant

At the 191-year-old American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, the cradle of deaf education in the country, teachers use sign language but include visual projectors, computer software and their own voices to teach hearing-impaired students with a wide range of abilities and needs.

The number of low-income students at Yale is declining, a new study shows, even as Harvard and some top-ranked public institutions, including the University of Connecticut, have made gains in admitting more students from the bottom of the economic ladder.

Last January, Simsbury High School took a headlong dive into the generation gap when administrators put a stop to the phenomenon known as booty dancing.

While the number of minority students in Hartford's schools has declined slightly since the landmark 1989 Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit, the number in the rest of the region has nearly tripled.

The 30 young members of the chorus enter the gym, most on foot, a few in wheelchairs. There was a time when some of these children could barely speak. But they slowly have found their voices.

Lorella Praeli will never forget the nasty instant messages that kept popping up on her home computer when she was a middle school student in New Milford. The ones that called her "peg-leg" and "border-hopper."

More than 5,000 high school students throughout the state are taking part in UConn Early College Experience, a program run by the University of Connecticut that gives students the chance to earn college credits and thus save thousands of dollars in higher education costs.

The state board of education today endorsed a high-school redesign proposal that would require students to pass end-of-course exams, complete an independent study, and take at least 24 credits in specific courses to earn a diploma.

Before Jared Chase took a course on educational inequalities at Trinity College, he never thought much about the challenges city students in public schools face.

High school students would be required to pass end-of-course exams, complete a yearlong independent study project and earn 24 credits in specific areas to graduate from any public school in Connecticut under a set of recommendations being considered by the State Board of Education.

The University of Connecticut is getting tougher and tougher to get into, but a new program now guarantees a spot for community college students.

He knows the experiment quickly failed when it was tried in Chicago seven years ago, but a school board member in Manchester is nonetheless suggesting that his district institute a parent report card program.

Enrollment at Connecticut's colleges and universities broke records for the sixth year in a row as the baby boomlet population neared its peak.

I  know, it's a busy life for the sex police in Connecticut. When we're not busy investigating a teacher for comic books with nudie pictures down in Guilford or prosecuting a substitute teacher on bogus Internet sex charges in Norwich, we're bearing down on Romeo and Juliet.

BLOOMFIELD - A generation ago, Bloomfield was heralded as the all-American community. Blacks and whites lived side by side, chasing the American dream of middle-class stability without regard to skin color. There were trimmed lawns and good schools.