Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Screengrab of page A2 of today’s LA Times Today’s the first day of school for LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest school district. It’s also the first day for Education Matters, a new online vertical at...

Bernie Sanders is going to meet with the TFA alum and other leaders of #blacklivesmatter. New polling (from a right-leaning think tank) suggests strong support for annual testing and little support for parents opting kids out of...

Freelance journalist Kyle Spencer speaks quickly, is relentlessly curious (and deeply skeptical) about claims people make about education, and has a lot on her plate. This include a piece of some kind on former Newark...

Here’s some potentially good news: WBUR (Boston public radio) is going to be boosting its education coverage in the near future. How do I know this? They’ve tasked Louise Kennedy to oversee WBUR’s “new vertical...

Washington state gets failing grade on school funding AP: Washington state is being fined $100,000 a day by the state Supreme Court because justices say lawmakers have failed to adequately pay to educate the state’s 1...

Way back in the Spring during test-taking season, there was little if any official information available about the numbers of parents who were opting their kids out of standardized tests. But there was no shortage of spin and...