Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Last week I wrote a blog post titled What The LA Times Should – And Shouldn’t – Do With Its Education Coverage. In it I mentioned an email that had been written by a veteran former journalist named Peter Sussman, but...

New York Will Shed Clock for Some Statewide Tests NYT: The English and math exams given to third- through eighth- grade students will no longer be timed, the State Education Department said, ending the call of “pencils down.”...

  It’s a reel-to-reel tape recorder, but a portable one.   Two of the longest-running independent education publications out there — Chicago’s Catalyst and Philadelphia’s The Notebook —...

Spending in nation’s schools falls again, with wide variation across states Washington Post: The nation’s per-pupil spending on K-12 public schools dropped in 2013 for the third year in a row, reversing more than a decade of...

“We could have been Vice. But we blended in instead of standing out” https://t.co/KjnCm62svF — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 24, 2016 I haven’t seen much hand-wringing in the education journalism world...

Many Public School Students Get 2nd Snow Day AP: Students in Philadelphia, Baltimore and the District of Columbia will get a second consecutive snow day as officials said schools will be closed in those cities again on Tuesday....