Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

From what I can tell, nobody else but me was bothered by the news coverage resulting from a new Shanker Institute report on teacher diversity in nine big-city school districts. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a...

It’s not always apparent to non-journalists where reporters get their story ideas, sources, and updated information. Stories just sort of appear online or in the newspaper, seemingly out of nowhere. By and large, the...

Common Core, Choice, and a Teenage Clockmaker Highlight Ed. in GOP Debates PK12: Fans of discussions about K-12 policy had little to cheer about Wednesday, but education did get occasional mentions from some of the GOP...

The New York Times has a story reporting the controversy surrounding various uses of the viral image of a dead Syrian boy including this image of the boy wearing a school backpack (below) published by French cartoonist, Emmanuel...

  *UPDATED: See additional information following original blog post.   Now that the Seattle teachers strike is ending, let’s take a moment to go back and take a quick look at the coverage of the strike and in...

Seattle Teachers Reach Tentative Agreement To End Strike HuffPost: Initially, the district had offered teachers a 9 percent pay increase over three years, although the association countered by demanding a 10.5 percent increase...