Russ on Reading

It is summer, which means that teachers all over the country are working a summer job to pay the bills, attending graduate courses to impr...

Tom Barclay with Cindy Mershon One of the finest educators I have ever known is retiring this month. I had the pleasure of working cl...

In case you missed it, earlier today a California judge ruled in what is known as the Vergara case, that teacher tenure and other job protec...

       Descartes said, “I think; therefore, I am.” I want our students to say, “I read and write; therefore, I can think.” Rene Descar...

Hamilton Township, New Jersey Schools Superintendent, James Parla, took a brave step the other day when he addressed the issue of defacto se...

Charter schools are the darling of the education reform movement. Appealing to the All-American ideal of “choice”, charter schools are sold ...

We here at Russ on Reading are constantly on the lookout for educational innovation, so when we heard of the new charter franchise, The Col...

Education reformers love the concept of "creative disruption." Applying a business model to public education, they argue that th...

You gotta' admire those education reformers. Despite their almost total lack of experience in education and despite all the research a...

I have just had a remarkable experience. I, along with a small group of Shakespeare enthusiasts, just completed a run of performances of Wil...