Alexander Russo

Charter School Teachers Make Bid For Support Politico NY: Families for Excellent Schools held its second rally in as many weeks in Manhattan’s Foley Square, but this time, the rally was attended by more than 1,000 charter school teachers, rather than many thousands of charter school students and parents. See also Chalkbeat New York, BuzzFeed. Meet the teacher […]

Click to the 5:55 mark of last night’s PBS NewsHour education segment (above) and you’ll see something that you don’t see very often: an on-air apology from the show for not having given one of its main sources (Success Academy’s Eva Moskowitz) the chance to respond to specific allegations made against her by a student […]

A Year Later: The School System That Welcomed Unaccompanied Minors NPR: It’s been a year since thousands of unaccompanied minors surged into the U.S. In the schools of Oakland, Calif., such children were seen not as a burden but as a challenge. See also Marketplace, US News. Family of Ahmed Mohamed, Student Clockmaker, to Move to Qatar NYT: Ahmed, […]

It’s nearly always interesting to see which outlets cover an announcement like the Monday’s USDE release about state grad rate increases for 2014 — and how they cover it (if they do): The Washington Post coverage (High school graduation rates are on the rise in most states) by Emma Brown is pretty straightforward, noting that grad rates […]

Much as I share some of the concerns expressed in this Nonprofit Quarterly article about philanthropic funding of education journalism (A Scary Mix of Journalism & Strategic Philanthropy , I didn’t come away from reading it with the feeling that it grappled authentically with the issues that are involved or was trying to urge readers […]

One of the images from the Business Insider story. Usually, I’m all about the words and I am always wary about reporting that focuses on innovation and speculation rather than what’s really going on in real life in most schools and seems scale-able to many more, but this image-heavy @meliarobin story describing a day in the […]

Graduation Rate Gap Between Black And White Students Is Closing In Most States HuffPost: Thirty-six states experienced an increase in graduation rates, while six saw decreases, according to a press release from the Education Department. Twenty-eight states saw decreases in the graduation rate gap between black and white students, as shown in the graph below. Most states show […]

Screengrab from Success Academy letter purporting to show reassurances from PBS NewsHour’s John Merrow that the segment would limit criticism of the school from one particular student “celebrates [Success Academy’s] focus on science and the arts, its remarkable academic success and its widespread popularity.” *Correction: EdWeek was not involved in the production of this segment. Success […]

Schools across US find alternatives to suspending students AP: The school districts in New York, Los Angeles and Denver are just some of those that have moved away from discipline policies that relied heavily on suspensions. State governments have also been taking action: This year, Connecticut limited out-of-school suspensions and expulsions for students up through the second […]

Here it is — let me know what I missed or got wrong: BEST OF THE WEEK EIA: Hillary’s NEA “Town Hall” Answers http://ow.ly/35wMNP  (See also Politics K-12 http://ow.ly/Try6T) PBS NewHour: Is kindergarten too young to suspend a student? http://ow.ly/Tvnet The Atlantic: Why Intel Ended Its Relationship With the Science Talent Search http://ow.ly/Tvotw Medium: Why are so many […]