Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

“It would have been funny (unbelievable? historic?) if one of the White House correspondents had said, ‘Mr. President, I know you want to address Syria and the budget. But I want to press you on your...

I’m heading off to Seattle to the Gates conference so I’ll be posting a bit here and mostly via Twitter (which also posts to Facebook). Or you can just see it all stream by below here. Tweets about...

There was no shortage of coverage of the announcement that Arne Duncan is leaving his post as head of the US Department of Education. Here are some highlights (and lowlights): Here’s most of the coverage that I’ve...

It often seems that education journalism focuses too much, too often on conflict and criticism, but this PBS NewsHour segment on a pioneering Boston teacher residency program might go too far the other direction. Concerns about...

NEA Endorses Hillary Clinton in Democratic Primary PK12: The endorsement comes despite serious misgivings from some affiliates, who were hoping a slower endorsement process would give the union more time to extract more policy...

BEST OF THE WEEK AP: Education Secretary Arne Duncan steps down after 7-year term http://ow.ly/SXhGh Texas Observer: South Texas Superintendent Pioneers Early College Approach http://ow.ly/SSeHd  WBEZ: Chicago Public Schools...