Feathers is a story with reminders of the good old days: afros, bell bottoms and hanging out at the basketball courts. But life for the character Frannie in Jacqueline Woodson's new novel takes a bit ...

When I was in 6th grade, my teacher set aside our scheduled lesson for a discussion on what was going on in the world around us. A young man in Baltimore named Freddie Gray had just died while in ...

Six little words – mundane to anyone else – electrified me: Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps. It was one line from an itinerary of an upcoming field trip to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. I ...

WETHERSFIELD, CT (WFSB) - Sixth grade homeroom teacher from Emerson-Williams Elementary, Jessica Sitler, always uses lessons in her classroom to challenge her students. “This one in particular was ...

"I thought I was so tough," one senior jokes while watching a video of his younger self A group of five seniors responded to questions from their sixth-grade selves in a now-viral video posted by ...

From reassembling a life-size brain model to seeing liquid nitrogen in action, students from IJ Holton Intermediate School spent a snowy Monday afternoon learning about science. IJ Holton Intermediate ...