Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Here’s a video of the NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones telling a story about a teenage high school student who has it all … well, almost all. Via Longreads Story Night (Nikole Hannah-Jones on Race, Education and...

Obama: Schools ‘Really Don’t Have An Excuse’ To Keep Native American Mascots HuffPost: With Adidas’ recent announcement that the company will help schools transition away from Native American mascots,...

BEST OF THE WEEK LA Times: Better pay, more time to plan and one other thing teachers want from you  http://ow.ly/Udc4w Politico: Here’s why $7B SIG didn’t help worst schools http://ow.ly/UbCUR Vox: What Success Academy fight...

Maybe it was just me — probably so — but I was caught pretty much entirely by surprise at the news Wednesday morning that there had been a big local school board race decided in St. Paul, Minnesota, and that activist...

This CJR piece links @BroadFoundation $$ for @LATeducation w/possible Broad purchase of LAT https://t.co/PuKP0wIjvN pic.twitter.com/fGnXPNzMfU — The Grade (@thegrade_) November 4, 2015 Last week, the Washington Post’s...

With White House rethinking tests, Washington wants its ‘No Child Left Behind’ waiver back Seattle Times: With federal waivers — which Washington had for awhile — school districts didn’t have to set aside some of their federal...