Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Image from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe series on desegregation efforts.The general lack of independent, high-quality commentary about education issues is a familiar concern to readers of THE GRADE.How lovely...

U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms nyti.ms/1WtMvrd See also: Reaction To White House Directive On Transgender Bathrooms : NPR ow.ly/6cM2300a7Jc USDE says it’s trying to protect poor...

Actor Michael Keaton, left, Boston Globe editor Walter Robinson, right The Boston Globe’s Walter Robinson gave an inspiring if cautionary talk to a room full of journalists last week. His remarks were so engrossing that,...

That’s Right: $63 Million for a Football Stadium … for High Schoolers – The New York Times ow.ly/9LNQ3008f0E New York’s Increase in Pre-K Funding Leads Nation – WSJ ow.ly/GKzk3008ftO California’s schools will...

Below find six “new” rules for education journalism, according to me. The best of the lot may be “Include at least 1 item not provided to you, a reaction quote, or lifted from another story.” Six new...

Do new charter schools really cost L.A. Unified more than $500 million a year? – LA Times ow.ly/dNLB3006pKB It’s Unlikely North Carolina Schools Would Lose Federal Funding Over HB 2 ow.ly/Xm643006qfT 25 hedge fund...