Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Today’s education roundup includes lots of coverage of the new Nevada education voucher, which Republican lawmakers plan to try and get passed in other states, plus a bit about Democratic Presidential candidates’...

It’s easy to forget or ignore that education writers and editors are themselves the products of their own individual education experiences (for better or worse) and oftentimes have to make school and education decisions...

Pictured: LAUSD’s district police department got one of these through the surplus program but returned it after news got out. Kudos to Rolling Stone and writer Molly Knefel for digging out the school district impact of the...

Today’s education news roundup includes states like California trying to figure out how to explain new (probably lower) Common Core test results to parents and the public, and states setting all sorts of different minimum...

One of the things that bothers me most is when education debates (and the coverage surrounding them) are based on partial or incomplete information. Sometimes, the limits are unavoidable; complete or comparable information just...

Today’s education news roundup includes an update on how parents are using the so-called “parent trigger” in LA and a call from the AFT’s Randi Weingarten to ditch Common Core cut scores: Testing the...