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The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting traditional college life, leaving students taking classes online and having to stay distanced from many friends. Two University of Connecticut students are hoping to help their peers cope with the stressors of college life during a pandemic through a new platform, Refreshr. “Refreshr is a way for students to connect with each other through one…

Two UConn students are trying to help fellow college students find new connections during this challenging time.

The disruption to schools caused by the coronavirus pandemic constitutes a “global education emergency” that threatens to derail the education of at least 24 million students projected to drop out of school as a result, said Henrietta Fore, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Some kids will start heading back to school in the state this week.

With thousands of individual school districts in the United States and no consolidated directive on how to begin fall classes — whether in-person, completely online or a combination of both — local communities are facing uncertain times.

Parents and students reacted Friday to the CIAC plan to go ahead with a fall sports season.

The first wave of college students returning to their dorms aren’t finding the typical mobs of students and parents. What they found Friday were strict safety protocols and some heightened anxiety amid a global pandemic where virus infections are growing in dozens of states. North Carolina State University staggered the return of its students over 10 days and welcomed the…

Governor Ned Lamont and State Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona held a listening session on returning to school with the ones who will walk the halls each day.

The coronavirus is disrupting the education of millions of Americans enrolled career and technical programs in different ways than traditional college students because what they learn is largely hands-on

U-Haul is offering one-month of free self-storage to college students forced out of their dorms as universities around the country cancel in-person classes amid fears of the fast-spreading coronavirus.

Forty percent of Connecticut’s student population is made up of minorities but only eight percent of the state’s teachers are minorities, and only one percent men. Now there’s a bipartisan push to put more people who look like their pupils at the front of the classroom. When a student has a teacher of color they’re more likely to feel...

Tuesday marks the first day of school for kids in Tolland, but it is a few days later than expected.

At least two people were killed and others were injured in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Tuesday. Police said a suspect was taken into custody. This is a developing story.

Hundreds of thousands of students in more than 100 countries skipped school Friday to demand action on climate change. Kids in more than 1,200 cities across the globe are protesting a failure of governments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The “Friday’s for Future” rallies were one of the biggest international climate change actions yet.

Fifteen percent of students and staff at McGee Middle School have called in sick, twice as much as any other school in the district.

Since Monday, dozens of students have been staying home sick from McGee Middle School in Berlin.

A suspect accused of crashing a stolen vehicle into a school bus full of kids and stealing a good Samaritan’s vehicle in East Hampton has been located after a police pursuit through multiple towns that ended in a crash in East Windsor Monday.

A prestigious Connecticut boarding school has released a new report that accuses three more adults of sexual misconduct involving students.

Students gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the East Los Angeles walkouts, where Chicano students across L.A. walked out protesting overcrowded classrooms, inexperienced teachers and a lack of college prep classes.

Two students were arrested after a potential threat against Wolcott schools was discovered on used tablet Friday, according to Wolcott police.