Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Charter School Teachers Make Bid For Support Politico NY: Families for Excellent Schools held its second rally in as many weeks in Manhattan’s Foley Square, but this time, the rally was attended by more than 1,000 charter...

Click to the 5:55 mark of last night’s PBS NewsHour education segment (above) and you’ll see something that you don’t see very often: an on-air apology from the show for not having given one of its main sources...

A Year Later: The School System That Welcomed Unaccompanied Minors NPR: It’s been a year since thousands of unaccompanied minors surged into the U.S. In the schools of Oakland, Calif., such children were seen not as a...

It’s nearly always interesting to see which outlets cover an announcement like the Monday’s USDE release about state grad rate increases for 2014 — and how they cover it (if they do): The Washington Post...

Much as I share some of the concerns expressed in this Nonprofit Quarterly article about philanthropic funding of education journalism (A Scary Mix of Journalism & Strategic philanthropy-washingtonmonthly-com , I...

One of the images from the Business Insider story.   Usually, I’m all about the words and I am always wary about reporting that focuses on innovation and speculation rather than what’s really going on in real...