Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Today’s education news includes some updates on Jeb Bush’s education foundation donors, Clinton emails that include AFT head Randi Weingarten, and Idaho Common Core test score results that aren’t that bad...

According to Vox, here are the states that allow nonmedical exemptions to school vaccination requirements. Just three states ban nonmedical exemptions (CA, MI, WV). Most other states allow some combination of religious and...

The three big stories of the day include the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a big case affecting public unions including teachers, plus Ohio’s decision to leave PARCC (which is now down to 11 states), and some...

You might already know all about Morgan Polikoff, or he might be something of a new name to you.  The professor now in his fifth year at USC has slowly but surely come onto folks’ radars, showing up on Twitter, in mainstream...

Today’s news includes a questionable choice of locations for the Christie campaign kickoff event, big education decisions by courts in Kansas and Colorado, and the USDA’s choice of Chobani greek yogurt for the...

A new report came out last week suggesting that the conventional wisdom around minority kids being over-represented in special education may be inaccurate.  If true – not everyone’s convinced — then, what...