Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Check out this fascinating ProPublica podcast interview with two of the journalists involved in the resegregation of Pinellas County schools, Michael LaForgia and Adam Playford. The Tampa Bay Times series is called Failure...

I don’t know whether it was blogger Diane Ravitch (Hillary Clinton Speaks Up About Charter Schools) or Valerie Strauss (Hillary Clinton: Most charter schools ‘don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they...

LAUSD Board of Education eyes growth of charter schools LA Daily News: The focus of the board’s deliberations will be a controversial $490 million plan to more than double the number of charter schools in Los Angeles. See...

Inside The Classroom: The Immigrant Experience by The Hechinger Report — Beacon https://t.co/75IVvps98J — Barbara Kantrowitz (@bkantrowitz) November 5, 2015 The folks at the Hechinger Report are exploring crowdfunding as a new...

Hillary Clinton Rebukes Charter Schools Politico: Her comments in South Carolina came straight from charter school critics’ playbook and distanced her from the legacies of her husband, former President Bill Clinton — credited...

Screengrab from last week’s WSJ Common Core story. It’s not hard to come away from reading last week’s front-page WSJ article (Financial Woes Plague Common-Core Rollout) feeling like things are going really, really poorly...