Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Less Than Half of Students Achieve Proficiency on Calif. Common-Core Exams State EdWatch: California students performed better on the English/language arts section of the Smarter Balanced exam than in math, according to scores...

It’s great when education reporters use available public polling data to help readers understand what others think about key issues, but can be problematic when they rely on one poll’s results that don’t match...

Seattle Teachers Strike On First Day Of School AP: Members of the Seattle Education Association, which represents about 5,000 teachers and support staff, said they will picket at all 97 schools Wednesday. See also NPR, NYT,...

I’m still working on my own look at the journalistic strengths and weaknesses of “The Prize,” but in the meantime there are some other reviews you might want to read or know about: Perhaps the best two pieces...

State Supreme Court: Charter schools are unconstitutional Seattle Times: The ruling — believed to be one of the first of its kind in the country — overturns the law voters narrowly approved in 2012 allowing publicly funded, but...

A screengrab from Malcolm Gladwell’s New Orleans retrospective BEST WRITING New Yorker: Lessons from NOLA ow.ly/RHGDV American Prospect: Obama’s Mixed Record on School Integration http://ow.ly/ROmWJ Tampa Bay Times:...