Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

At GOP Debate, Candidates Talk Detroit Public Schools, Common Core PK12: Kasich said he’d like to slim down the U.S. Department of Education, but didn’t say whether he would bail out Detroit public schooos. Baltimore...

As you may recall from just a few days ago, the New York Times obtained and published video of a Success Academy teacher dramatically ripping up a student’s work and telling her to do it over. The video and accompanying...

Jarring New Video Shows A School Police Officer Kicking A Black Teen HuffPost: Four seconds, three slaps, two profane words and one kick. That’s the narrative of a disturbing new video that appears to show a Baltimore...

Pretty much any story about AltSchools, the new private micro-schools popping up around the country, raises concerns about hype and overcoverage. There’s also a long and unfortunate history of education coverage focusing...

Thousands of New York City Students Deprived of Special-Education Services, Report Says NYT: The city’s Education Department said that its data systems were so unreliable that it was not exactly sure what percentage of students...

There are a number of new efforts to bring more diverse backgrounds into journalism going on these days, including a new Fusion Fellowship program that’s just launched in California and includes a bunch of journalists and...