Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

There haven’t been any major gaffes or problems with media coverage of this year’s report, according to the folks at PDK. “I thought all the coverage was great,” says PDK’s Joshua Starr, who until recently headed the...

Today’s news includes an ACT gap for schools serving Latino students, a resumption of the NY version of the teacher tenure challenge that rocked CA last year, and a new report showing a massive racial gap in Southern...

This Andrea Gabor oped in the NYT (The Myth of the New Orleans School Makeover) has reform advocates freaking out, appearing as it does in the nation’s most prominent paper and claiming that reform efforts in New Orleans...

Last week, news got out that Kate Zernike (@kzernike) is returning to the national desk and to the education beat, where Motoko Rich has been toiling on her own for a while now. I heard about it first from Patrick Riccards on...

Today’s education news includes a report showing that NY State won’t be punished for its 20 percent testing opt out rate (statewide), plus more coverage of public polls on annual testing and NOLA anniversary...

No offense, but there’s nothing much I like about Boston except that my mom and sister both live there, and it’s my mom’s birthday on Friday. So that’s where I am headed, and not here sharing the...