Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

In case you hadn’t noticed, BRIGHT – the lively if not exactly hard-hitting education site on Medium that debuted this past summer – hasn’t been the short-lived “popup shop” that it might have been. Originally the...

Obama signs education law rewrite shifting power to states AP: Calling it a “Christmas miracle,” President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Thursday, ushering in a...

I’ve seen a lot of descriptions of this LA case as a witch hunt [https://t.co/CErKS1oaNF]. Turns out not so much: https://t.co/RXe6qFbcub — Libby Nelson (@libbyanelson) December 8, 2015 On Tuesday, the LA Times published a...

New Education Law Passes, With A Power Shift Back To The States NPR: States are thankful for the opportunity, but critics say there’s no guarantee that states will succeed in two crucial areas the old law — known as No...

Senate prepares to vote on No Child Left Behind rewrite AP: Although the federally mandated reading and math exams in grades three to eight and in high school continue, legislation expected to be voted on by the Senate on...

Kudos to the Tampa Bay Times for being mentioned in the Columbia Journalism Review’s Best and worst journalism of 2015: “The project, framed with slick visuals and interactive graphics, is stunning in its totality....