Kappan Contributor: Alexander Russo

Shiny new education outlets and sections may seem to be showing up every day — with more on the way — but at the same time long-established ones are closing up shop, taking a break, or paring back. For example, a...

Nearly five days after it first ran, this 18-minute “Last Week with John Oliver” segment on testing, Pearson, and all the rest continues to generate attention on social media and elsewhere: By and large, those...

There are two problematic approaches to writing about education I see a lot of these days: one I’ll dub “hysteria,” and the other I’ll call “hype.” The first — much in vogue right now...

HBO’s John Oliver isn’t the only cable news comedian getting heat for recent comments about education. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart recently got dinged in the Washington Post for wildly overstating the amount...