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Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer who has created several long-running blogs such as the national news site This Week In Education, District 299 (about Chicago schools), and LA School Report. He can be reached on Twitter at @alexanderrusso, on Facebook, or directly at alexanderrusso@gmail.com.
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Questioning Affluent Parents’ School Choices
One of the biggest takeaways from the NYT Sunday Magazine article Choosing A School For My Daughter is how unusual it seems to be for parents with other choices to send their children to schools with lower test scores or higher rates of segregation — and how relatively little attention has been paid in the media […]
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Roundup: Duncan at Brookings, Teachers & Tech, NYC “Musical Chairs”
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Clustering Education Stories Doesn’t Always Work Best
Above: Overview of 12 Slate stories from “Tomorrow’s Test” series this week. These past few weeks and months have included a number of ambitious, multipart education series: *The WNYC series “Integration 2.0” includes 10 segments so far, depending on how you count them. *The Slate series “Tomorrow’s Test” includes 12 segments over the course of this […]
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Roundup: Detroit Has Most Chronic Absences, Malia Graduates Today
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Why Some Parents Choose a Segregated School
This WNYC video short (above) shows NYT writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband taking their daughter to a segregated school in Brooklyn. Read the accompanying article by WNYC’s Rebecca Carroll here, or the lengthy Hannah-Jones NYT piece about the decision she and her husband made and the controversy over rezoning the school to give wealthier white kids access […]
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Roundup: Detroit Bailout, Kansas Funding, WA State Absentee Dispute
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Slate Takes On Race and Education
WNYC’s “Integration 2.0” isn’t the only education series launched this week focusing on issues related to education and race. There are also a bunch of stories over at Slate as part of a series called “Tomorrow’s Test.” In both series, structural issues and white privilege are key issues There are four more stories left to […]
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Roundup: Chronic Absences, Funding Woes, Smoother Testing
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