Alexander Russo

Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer who currently writes at his blog, The Grade and the national news site This Week In Education He has created several long-running blogs such as District 299 (about Chicago schools) and LA School Report.

Posts By Alexander Russo

Student Voice

We Can't Keep Ignoring the Suburbs and the Black People That Live in Them

L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy first came to my attention at this spring’s Education Writers Association (EWA) national conference in Boston, where he served as a panelist talking about school integration...

Teaching

How to Get Rid of Low Expectations for Students of Color? Anti-Bias Training Might Be the Answer

Kudos to the Seattle Times’ Claudio Rowe and NBC’s Sylvia Cunningham for their coverage of a recent Johns Hopkins study on differences in teachers’ expectations of students depending on whether they...

Diversity

Just How White Is Education Journalism? Turns Out, Pretty White

In light of #OscarsSoWhite, I asked around a few education newsrooms to find out how things were going on the racial diversity front. What seems clear from these initial anecdotal results is that the...

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