Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

It’s not yet entirely clear who broke the story or how they both ended up writing on such a similar thing but both LA NPR affiliate KPCC and ProPublica (with the LA Times) recently published stories describing...

Here’s a roundup of this morning’s education news coverage: Va. testing interrupted three times because of issues with Pearson system Washington Post: Pearson said the company was the target of a cyberattack on...

depressing flack email exchange of the day pic.twitter.com/21um0spzGW — Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) May 20, 2015 Writer Dana Goldstein posted this depressing email offer from a PR person who basically said that her company...

Here’s the response from NCES to the Achieve report I wrote about earlier this week, which suggests that the organization behind the NAEP tests and scores isn’t entirely comfortable with the uses to which the Achieve...

Some vast majority of school systems assign students to schools by strict geographic (and thus economic) boundaries known as local school districts and neighborhood attendance zones.  The exceptions — magnet and themed...

Teach and Frisk – The Awl http://t.co/KAT8Oj9FJR @lwoodhouse on one LAUSD teacher’s attempt at restorative justice pic.twitter.com/nGJjwzeJyL — alexanderrusso (@alexanderrusso) April 20, 2015 There’s one thing...