🏆 Best Education Journalism of the Week 🏆 (08/29/2025) Alexander Russo Aug 29, 2025 In this week’s newsletter: 📌 States and districts show improvements — mostly. 📌 Journalists reflect on post-Katrina education coverage. 📌 All-star education reporter Talia Richman has her Baltimore Banner debut. 📌 “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” STATES SHOW IMPROVEMENT The big education story […] The post Improving scores, Katrina reflections,...| Kappan Online
On the 20th anniversary of the Katrina disaster, a longtime NOLA reporter describes the challenges of covering a highly decentralized system — and the nuances outside NOLA coverage often miss. Marta Jewson Aug 27, 2025 Fifteen years ago, I moved to New Orleans as an Americorps volunteer. I was 22 years old. Having spent my […] The post Disaster, decentralization, & the slow climb back to school transparency appeared first on Kappan Online.| Kappan Online
Abamu: "The question isn’t whether your industry will change, it’s whether you’ll change with it."| Kappan Online
Equity grading gets an “F” in San Francisco — and increased scrutiny in other places. A chance to breathe for education reporters. A surge of criticism for the EWA conference. Don’t mess with Sacramento Bee education reporter Jennah Pendleton!| Kappan Online
Current and former education journalists look back and share lessons on the 5th anniversary of the start of the pandemic.| Kappan Online
This is the story of how virtual learning broke school culture, how administrators failed to rebuild it — and how media coverage overlooked the human toll of these failures.| Kappan Online
We “EL advocates/SoR critics” have articulated very clearly and openly the rationale for our opposition to Science of Reading legislation, which is not a critique of the research itself.| Kappan Online
Misplaced concerns about English learners and the science of reading are slowing progress, says former Stanford professor Claude Goldenberg. Vigilant journalism is the key to addressing the confusion. By Alexander Russo While it might seem like the literacy reform movement has become something of a juggernaut, that’s not entirely the case. Several states — California […]| Kappan Online