Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Remember that CJR piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the current state of education journalism? Well, it wasn’t just the clickbait headline (Why education reporters are missing the grade) that some folks found...

How Common Core quietly won the war Politico: Ask most any third-grader: Just as Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the cheerleader in chief for the Cmmon Core and rigorous standards, prepares to step down, the standards that...

@BillGates shares The Learning Line from local Teacher of the Year. Where are you on the learning line? #GatesEd pic.twitter.com/TUFq8PR2Bq — Rhonda Broussard (@BroussardRhonda) October 7, 2015 BEST OF THE WEEK  ...

There was a fair amount of coverage of the Gates Foundation’s education program over the past few days, in addition to the above PBS NewsHour segment (transcript here) – but the coverage might have been eclipsed by...

Here’s veteran journalist and author Dale Russakoff being interviewed recently by the NYT’s Kate Zernike at an event hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Russakoff’s book about Newark public schools...

The Solutions Journalism folks, in partnership with the Hechinger Report, have put out a new guide focusing on education coverage (and are also conducting a webinar today at 1:00 Eastern). Solutions-oriented journalism is...