Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

What a lovely and much-appreciated thing to come across education writer Sarah Carr’s reflection about New Orleans-related education journalism the other day as we approach what I hope is the end of a seemingly-endless...

White House Seeks HQT Extension for Teachers in Training EdWeek: Critics consider this a major loophole in the law, although the U.S. Department of Education said earlier this year that there were not many such teachers (about...

Hidden in this WSJ blog post (Back to School Shopping Is a Digital Holdout) is the revelation that less than 10 percent of shopping is done online. Sure, the back to school figure is lower — just 6 percent. But the...

Education reporters and journalists of all kinds have struggled to figure out what if anything to do with the possibility that public officials might have accessed the infidelity hookup site called Ashley Madison, whose user...

Former CPS CEO Paul Vallas blames successors [including Duncan] for $1B deficit ABC7 Chicago: “In 2001, the district had $1.2 billion in cash reserves,” said Paul Vallas, former CPS CEO. “They had six years of...

The latest version of Education Next’s Top K-12 Education Policy People on Social Media is out today, and I’m happy to have been included again (up from #20 out of the top 25 to #16). Though separate rankings based...