Alexander Russo

Today’s news includes updates on next steps for the federal ESEA law, plus new research on teacher effectiveness during the recession, and the ongoing saga of the AFL’s attempt to coordinate endorsements for Clinton or Sanders: Senate’s ESEA rewrite would do away with supplanting rule SI&A Cabinet Report: A compromise revision of the nation’s primary education law […]

Increasingly, media outlets are adding user-generated images, eyewitness accounts, and reactions from social media to their coverage. But it isn’t always easy finding useful material – especially for mobile-first platforms like the image-sharing site Instagram, which also happens to be particularly favored by students and younger adults. That’s changed as of last week, according to […]

A screengrab from Libby Nelson’s recent Vox piece on NCLB lessons. Over at his Relinquishment blog, reformer and occasional media critic Neerav Kingsland has some thoughts about how Vox’s Libby Nelson has covered NCLB and the research that’s come out about its impacts (The Scariest Lesson). For her part, Nelson seems to think that Kingsland […]

Today’s news includes more about the tragic death of a NYC principal accused of cheating on student tests, plus a big update on the strange doings in Colorado and a return to college accountability for the Obama administration: Principal’s Suicide, Forged Tests Rock Promising NYC School AP: The scandal has stirred sorrow and uncertainty after a […]

Check out Shan Wang’s new Nieman Journalism Lab review (Can Campbell Brown’s education news site walk the advocacy-journalism tightrope?) for some interesting tidbits (there aren’t actually 74 million kids in school) and quotes (from Columbia’s LyNell Hancock and Chalkbeat’s Elizabeth Green, among others). However, I don’t think that the real question is whether The Seventy […]

On one hand, this Miami Herald headline (Charter school growth means fewer public school teaching jobs in Miami-Dade) makes perfect sense: “The district estimates it will hire 425 less instructional staff next year, according to its latest budget projections.” On the other hand, it makes no sense at all. Charter school jobs are just as much […]

Today’s news includes more about the teachers who were in the Louisiana movie theater shooting last week, plus an update on the NYC principal who apparently committed suicide after test cheating at her school was revealed. Plus some good news for Common Core tests and DREAMer scholarships in Missouri. After Lafayette theater shooting, union chief […]

What a treat it was finally getting to meet BuzzFeed’s new(ish) business of education reporter, Molly Hensley-Clancy (center, above) yesterday and talk education journalism on a lovely summer day. The fast-talking reporter  — “former Yalie, always a Minnesotan,” according to her Twitter bio — is really excited about education journalism. As she should be.  She’s getting […]

Today’s education news includes informed speculation from EdWeek over if and when the NEA will endorse Clinton (or will it be Sanders), plus Clinton’s newfound focus on social justice issues. There’s also WSJ coverage of Newark teachers who can’t find assignments (or won’t work at schools with extended days), and a new twist in the […]

Projected scores are in blue, preliminary results are in orange. English is on the left. Math is on the right. While many state and local officials nervously wait to get their Common Core test scores back and to share them out with the public, some states like Oregon and Washington have jumped the line and […]