Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Screengrab of recent Mother Jones story about the new federal education law. Looking at the headline for this recent Mother Jones story — “There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education...

Detroit Public School Teachers Protest WNYC: Earley called the “sickout” in Detroit yesterday an action by a minority of public school teachers, saying it “served no purpose other than to harm and disrupt the...

Today’s high-profile consideration of the Friedrichs case against mandatory union fees is a great opportunity to think about media coverage of the Supreme Court and school law issues in general. So far as I’ve seen,...

It’s always interesting to me to hear education journalists talk about how they came to the beat or how they feel about it. That’s why I’ve enjoyed interviewing so many reporters and editors this past year...

Supreme Court Case Could Weaken Government Workers Unions AP: While half the states already have right-to-work laws banning mandatory fees, most members of public-employee unions are concentrated in more liberal-leaning states...

From this week’s New Yorker. BEST OF THE WEEK NYT: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education http://ow.ly/WO3yX Marketplace: Out of public housing, and hoping for something better http://ow.ly/WO3m2...