Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

BEST OF THE WEEK LA Times: Meet the teacher lobby behind Hillary Clinton that’s not the teachers union http://ow.ly/TMfeo ChalkbeatNY: For two sharply divided Manhattan schools, an uncertain path to integration...

*See correction at bottom of this piece. Media criticism is fun, important, and seems easy. That’s why everyone wants to do it. But it doesn’t work very well (in terms of being taken seriously) when done as a form of...

Screengrab of Success Academies email. While at least one FERPA expert believes that Success Academies may have violated federal privacy law in releasing disciplinary details that could be linked to a student’s name,...

Who might head L.A. Unified, and what are officials looking for in a leader? LA Times: In its search for a new superintendent, the Los Angeles Board of Education is out to find that rare leader who can tame political turmoil,...

It’s been quite a week for the PBS NewsHour’s education coverage, what with the controversy surrounding the segment on Success Academies charter schools (below) and complaints more recently about Gwen Ifill’s...

I still don’t have anything definitive but at least one student privacy expert suggests that Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academies network of charters may have erred in releasing details about a student’s...