Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $50 Million to Create New High Schools NYT: With an advertising campaign that looks as if it came from Apple’s marketing department, the initiative [XQ: The Super School Project] is meant to create...

BEST OF THE WEEK Hechinger: Teachers wanted: Passion a must, patience required, pay negligible ow.ly/S5J50 LA Times: The best and worst things about being a student of color. http://ow.ly/S6GZm NYT Magazine: Xavier University’s...

In case you haven’t seen it, the AFT and friends have launched their own site on Medium called Schoolhouse Voices. It’s mission is “raising up the voices of educators, school staff, policy makers and leaders on...

By and large, Dale Russakoff’s new book about Newark schools has been applauded as well-reported, carefully balanced, and eye-opening. Unlike many other books these days, there were fact-checkers involved in the process...

Less Than Half of CA Students Made the Grade on New Common Core-Aligned Test Slate: A total of 12 million students in 29 states took some version of these new Common Core-based assessments developed by Smarter Balanced and PARCC...

When I had the chance to interview Tulane’s Doug Harris (pictured above) last month, Andrea Gabor’s  NYT oped about NOLA had not yet come out. But I was surprised to find out that he was not as concerned about some...