Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Today’s news includes updates on next steps for the federal ESEA law, plus new research on teacher effectiveness during the recession, and the ongoing saga of the AFL’s attempt to coordinate endorsements for Clinton...

Increasingly, media outlets are adding user-generated images, eyewitness accounts, and reactions from social media to their coverage. But it isn’t always easy finding useful material – especially for mobile-first...

A screengrab from Libby Nelson’s recent Vox piece on NCLB lessons. Over at his Relinquishment blog, reformer and occasional media critic Neerav Kingsland has some thoughts about how Vox’s Libby Nelson has covered...

Today’s news includes more about the tragic death of a NYC principal accused of cheating on student tests, plus a big update on the strange doings in Colorado and a return to college accountability for the Obama...

Check out Shan Wang’s new Nieman Journalism Lab review (Can Campbell Brown’s education news site walk the advocacy-journalism tightrope?) for some interesting tidbits (there aren’t actually 74 million kids in school)...

On one hand, this Miami Herald headline (Charter school growth means fewer public school teaching jobs in Miami-Dade) makes perfect sense: “The district estimates it will hire 425 less instructional staff next year,...