Alexander Russo

The New York Review of Books is running a three- part series on Digital Journalism and so far — Part 1 (How Good Is It?), Part 2 (The Next Generation) — it’s been pretty much unrelentingly critical of all the shiny new media outlets and experiments out there that get so much attention.  Digital journalism isn’t […]

Why Campbell Brown’s new site/advocacy effort should imitate VICE or Al Jazeera America not Politico or EDIN’08: Here’s an eight-minute version of an Aspen Institute event hosted by The 74’s Campbell Brown in which three mainstream journalists (Capehart, Dickerson, and Bruni) talk about whether the public (and political journalists?) care about education — and in […]

Today’s education news includes more debate about ESEA in the Senate plus an AFT endorsement of Hillary Clinton (no surprise) just before her big economic speech today: Senate ESEA Debate: What to Expect This Week PK12: Pressure rises, with nearly 150 amendments filed so far on the bill to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, though […]

Teach and Frisk – The Awl http://t.co/KAT8Oj9FJR @lwoodhouse on one LAUSD teacher’s attempt at restorative justice pic.twitter.com/nGJjwzeJyL — alexanderrusso (@alexanderrusso) April 20, 2015 Enthusiasm and annoying repetition are not very Awl-like, but what can I do? I’m sure there are good reasons to hate the site (super-white, super-male might be an issue), but still it’s […]

Remember that WBEZ Chicago public radio story I wrote about a few days ago (Chicago Series Highlights Tensions, Tradeoffs)? Well, in response to am oped from Education Post’s Tracy Dell’Angela published by the Chicago Daily Herald (Don’t give up on reforms for schools in poverty), WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and editor Cate Cahan posted a comment at […]

.@alexanderrusso NYT story today says that under #NCLB schools w/ low test scores were subject to closure. False. http://t.co/4DLfTuaZOD — Charles Barone (@CharlesBarone) July 9, 2015 A handful of bitter folks took to Twitter on Thursday to complain about a recent New York Times education story, claiming that it inaccurately linked No Child Left Behind […]

Today’s news includes updates on the Senate debate over NCLB this week, plus news about New York state dropping Pearson for some testing and a new report from the USDE about state standards and proficiency rates varying widely across the nation: Some states would lose big money with proposed education funding changes Washington Post: Congress’s debate about […]

“It’s unreasonable to expect reporters on deadline to dig into the medical history of every protester they quote. And there is value in explaining the underpinnings of political passion, even if that passion is born from misinformation. But it’s also the media’s role to distinguish between ordinary people in a crowd and professionals who show […]

Today’s education news includes the House passage of a new education bill, while the Senate continues to debate, plus Common Core results for Oregon and a school-related Trump cancellation: Senate Rejects School Voucher Amendment During ESEA Debate PK12: Democrats cleared their first school choice policy hurdle, defeating a voucher amendment on the second day of debate on […]

“Dear N.Y. Times: Please stop using words like “addiction” in reference to media consumption. It is a sign of lazy thinking, meant to stop conversations about our kids, not start them.” — USA Today education writer (and learning games author) Greg Toppo on Facebook yesterday. Used with permission. For another take (also critical of the […]