A Connecticut judge calls unequal education unconstitutional, and raises national questions about the American way of schooling.

Hartford Courant (Neag School and UConn professors were awarded nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning) 

Over the years, there’s been a shift in how 9/11 has been taught, UConn’s Alan Marcus says. Up until the 10th anniversary, he said, there was a balance between teaching about the event, but also memorializing the people killed and mourning their loss. He said there is a move to teaching about the impact of 9/11 and the connection to today’s world, including America’s role in Iraq and Afghanistan, the continuation of terrorism and ISIS.

A ruling by a state judge ordering Connecticut to overhaul public-school funding has sent chills through some suburban and rural districts, where leaders fear they will lose money from Hartford if the order is carried out.

Mark Paige, a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and Preston Green, a professor at the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education, discuss school funding plans across the country, many of which are either in court or have already been ruled unconstitutional as the school year begins.

A Connecticut judge’s sweeping ruling Wednesday declaring vast portions of the state’s educational system as unconstitutional sent shock waves across the state.

Concussions are a delicate topic, and former UConn quarterback Casey Cochran is pushing to bring the conversation about them even closer to the front table.

Uyi Osunde said this: “Being educated is one of the eight wonders in the world.” Only he didn’t say those words Friday as he sat in his office at Windsor High School. He said them to The Courant in 2002. He was a 20-year-old defensive end on the UConn football team.

Norwich Bulletin (Louise Berry, the longest tenured superintendent in the state and a Neag School alumnus, has retired after 34 years as the top administrator)

Hartford Courant (Neag School alumnus, Noam Sturm, is the new principal at Roaring Brook School in Avon, Conn.)