Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

As students sit down for second year of new exams, pressure is on to perform KPCC LA: When students across the Southland and California sit down to take the Smarter Balanced exams beginning this week, the pressure will be back...

Check out this Media Matters for America video segment (The Whiteness Of The Media Is A Slow-Motion Train Wreck | Blog) featuring the NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Hones talking about how journalists’ backgrounds and newsroom...

Looking more closely at Hillary Clinton’s education SWAT team idea – EdWeek http://ow.ly/ZcON9 Christie Warns on Newark Schools – WSJ http://ow.ly/Zd7l2 Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Common Core (and Neither...

Hillary Clinton: Teachers Are Often ‘Scapegoats’ for Low-Performing Schools PK12: Clinton said she’d like to create an “education SWAT team” at the U.S. Department of Education to help intervene in...

  BEST OF THE WEEK PolitiFact: Does Trump University have an ‘A’ from the Better Business Bureau? Not really. http://bit.ly/214MasL Washington Post: Meet the man behind the new SAT: ‘I’m in the anxiety field.’...

Screengrab from Slate’s Deray Mckesson story from last month. A couple of weeks ago at Slate, American Prospect fellow Rachel Cohen took a look at the already much-covered candidacy of Deray Mckesson for Baltimore mayor...