Russ on Reading

My response to a pro-voucher newspaper editorial. Yesterday the Times of Trenton printed an editorial arguing for expanded “universal s...

The corporate education reformers love to tell teachers what they need to do, what they have failed to do and where they need to place their...

How did you learn to write? Can you point to particular lessons? Particular teachers?  Particular assignments? When did you know you were a ...

As a teenager one of my favorite books was The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. His satirical definitions of words struck at the he...

Several months ago I wrote a piece entitled, Round Robin Reading Must Die , calling on all teachers and teacher leaders to work to wipe out ...

Recent research out of Stanford University by Adriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald reinforces much of what we already know about the importan...

The only advantage I can imagine to being stuck on the tarmack for 2 hours at Austin-Bergstrom Airport last week while the plane was being d...

Who is the most powerful man in public education? In one of the first critiques of the “new” SAT rolled out by College Board President,...

Back in the sixties when I was in my folk music stage, a song by singer Ed McCurdy was making the rounds of the coffee houses. The song was ...

              A guide for teachers who want to strike back at the over use of standardized tests At the end of its first conference in ...

Notes from Day 2 of the Network Of Public Education Conference Day 2 of the Network for Public Education Conference in Austin, TX began ...

Russ on Reading goes to the Network for Public Education Conference in Austin, Texas I am feeling so fortunate to be here in Austin wit...

I have the honor of speaking on a panel with other education bloggers at the Network for Public Education Conference in Austin, TX this week...