Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

It’s not like DeRay McKesson (@deray) needs any more publicity. He’s a one-man social media machine with 134,000 followers. He’s maxed out on Facebook but you can still follow him there. He’s been on...

Once in a while rival outlets end up covering the same topic at roughly the same time.  As noted in Education Week that’s what happened not too long ago: San Francisco Papers Squabble Over Special Reports on School...

The latest education news includes lots of questions about what happens next now that Gov. Christie has reversed course on Common Core standards, plus the announcement that Chicago’s embattled school superintendent Barbara...

The Atlantic’s recent piece The Ongoing Struggle of Teacher Retention describes the many challenges of getting and keeping great teachers in the schools that need them most. Part first-person memoir, the piece by writer...

Three more things about that post (NYT Includes Squishy Miami-Dade Layoff Figures) I wrote the other day: a request for a correction, an apology, and a remaining mystery over staffing numbers. THE BACKSTORY As you may recall, it...

The big news from this morning’s education news roundup is the completion of NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s Common Core flip-flop (which will make little substantive difference to what’s happening on the ground),...