Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Here’s Media Matters’ liberal-leaning list of the Worst Media Failures On Public Education In 2015, which includes criticism of The Seventy Four (for publishing Eric Owens), the WSJ AND Washington Post editorial...

Let’s start the new year off gently with some education journalism job news: Over the weekend, you may have heard the voice of Lee Hale on NPR, reporting about the challenges of being a special education teacher...

NYC took steps to boost academic diversity in 2015, new report shows ChalkbeatNY:  The department stopped most middle schools in three districts from screening applicants based on their academic records, and allowed 51...

Welcome back! I’m doing some longform writing this week, but you can find what few things strike my interest (and what folks are Tweeting at me to get my attention) here or via Twitter or Facebook. I’ll be back...

Thanks to all of you who read and comment on this site, and send me ideas and correct my wrong-headedness on all sorts of issues. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned and how much I appreciate engaging with you....

At number 10 of The Atlantic’s 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015, This American Life’s pair of segments on school segregation gets a nice writeup: “The Problem We All Live With” was an ambitious undertaking even for...