Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Since 2008, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship program has given three education writers a chance to spend a year reporting on a story that they might otherwise never have gotten the chance to write. The results have...

States turn to college-prep tests for federal reporting SI&A Cabinet Report: New Hampshire has joined a growing number of states opting to use college-prep entrance exams rather than standardized testing to assess high...

This weekend’s big AP story about Common Core came off as overly negative to me. I’m a big fan of the AP education team (which on this story included Christine Armario, Donna Gordon Blankinship, and Sally Ho). I am...

What a pleasure listening to American RadioWorks’ new hour-long education documentary, Teaching Teachers, which asks us all to step back from all the debates surrounding and look at what makes good teachers and where...

Presidents Obama, Bush Praise New Orleans’ Schools Education Week: U.S. presidents past and present are visiting New Orleans this week, marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and discussing the radical reshaping...

“School Starts Sept. 9. Resistance is futile. You will be educated” (Not new but still fun.) BEST WRITING New Yorker: The Life and Death of Jamaica High School ow.ly/Rmtzm Enquirer: First day at one of Camden’s...