Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

House Speaker Boehner, Key Architect of NCLB, to Resign From Congress PK12:&nbsdivp;Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, was the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce committee when Congress passed the No Child Left Behind...

BEST OF THE WEEK  Politico: Arne Duncan’s Wars http://ow.ly/SGkzx LA Times: $490-million plan would put half of LAUSD students in charter schools http://ow.ly/SGkLh Atlantic: A Philly High School Where College Is Not the...

There are three different ways to cover education, I’d argue. One of them is best but relatively unusual; the other two are common but vastly inferior. The first way is to cover the latest events, rhetoric, and competing...

Sadness in international-student community after tour-bus tragedy Seattle Times: North Seattle enrolls about 900 international students each year, and the students on the bus, including the four who died, were among this year’s...

Politico’s big education package came out yesterday, complete with (glowing) profile of Arne Duncan, (skeptical-minded) reporting about online learning, and a fascinating oral history tracing out how the unlikely group of...

Looking for an amazing piece of journalism to read? Check out Invisible Child, the NYT’s five-part series about the life of a homeless girl named Dasani, which the newspaper included in a recent roundup of favorite stories...