Alexander Russo

@BillGates shares The Learning Line from local Teacher of the Year. Where are you on the learning line? #GatesEd pic.twitter.com/TUFq8PR2Bq — Rhonda Broussard (@BroussardRhonda) October 7, 2015 BEST OF THE WEEK NPR: Surprisingly Few Urban High School Students Take The ACT Or SAT http://ow.ly/TejXm NYT: Test Scores Under Common Core Show That ‘Proficient’ Varies by State […]

There was a fair amount of coverage of the Gates Foundation’s education program over the past few days, in addition to the above PBS NewsHour segment (transcript here) – but the coverage might have been eclipsed by an impressive disclosure from EdWeek the likes of which I’ve never seen before. In terms of coverage, EdWeek’s Liana […]

Here’s veteran journalist and author Dale Russakoff being interviewed recently by the NYT’s Kate Zernike at an event hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Russakoff’s book about Newark public schools has been all the rage this summer and fall. Zernike is returning to the education beat (though we have yet to see an education […]

The Solutions Journalism folks, in partnership with the Hechinger Report, have put out a new guide focusing on education coverage (and are also conducting a webinar today at 1:00 Eastern).  Solutions-oriented journalism is everywhere these days, or at least it’s more places than it used to be. Once officially limited to an occasional NYT column (called Fixes), […]

“It would have been funny (unbelievable? historic?) if one of the White House correspondents had said, ‘Mr. President, I know you want to address Syria and the budget. But I want to press you on your administration’s plan for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act …’” That’s an excerpt from Mark Walsh in his EdWeek […]

I’m heading off to Seattle to the Gates conference so I’ll be posting a bit here and mostly via Twitter (which also posts to Facebook). Or you can just see it all stream by below here. Tweets about “@alexanderrusso”

There was no shortage of coverage of the announcement that Arne Duncan is leaving his post as head of the US Department of Education. Here are some highlights (and lowlights): Here’s most of the coverage that I’ve seen in the last 72 hours: AP sources: Education Secretary Arne Duncan stepping down after 7 years in […]

  It often seems that education journalism focuses too much, too often on conflict and criticism, but this PBS NewsHour segment on a pioneering Boston teacher residency program might go too far the other direction. Concerns about the costs, quality, and retention rates of residency programs aren’t addressed until very late in the piece, and […]

NEA Endorses Hillary Clinton in Democratic Primary PK12: The endorsement comes despite serious misgivings from some affiliates, who were hoping a slower endorsement process would give the union more time to extract more policy promises from Clinton. See also Politico, NYT, LA Times, Washington Post, Education Intelligence Agency. Federal judge agrees to hear charter schools’ case alleging unequal funding Washington Post: […]

BEST OF THE WEEK AP: Education Secretary Arne Duncan steps down after 7-year term http://ow.ly/SXhGh Texas Observer: South Texas Superintendent Pioneers Early College Approach http://ow.ly/SSeHd  WBEZ: Chicago Public Schools lowers graduation rate after WBEZ finds errors http://ow.ly/SWnZC  The Seventy Four: Ohio’s Charter School Disaster http://ow.ly/SXgXg TIME: Why the SAT and the ACT are competing for students long before college […]