Russ on Reading

Nadya Miranda. the mother of the first grade child berated by her teacher in the infamous video published by the New York Times, has spoke...

My uncle was a dairy farmer in North Carolina. In the fifties, before automation hit the dairy industry, I used to watch him drag his old...

The vile video of Success Academy teacher, Charlotte Dial , berating a first grader for making a mistake on her math paper, reminds me of ...

On Friday, the New York Times ran an article and accompanying video showing a Success Academy teacher berating a young child, ripping up ...

I n the final chapter of the book, Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy, James V. Hoffman and P. David Pearson take a...

In many ways, I see the adoption of the Common Core State Standards as the ultimate victory of E. D. Hirsch and his idea of "cultural...

New Jersey's Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments issued its report this week after a year and a half of deliberations....

                                Homework! Oh homework!                                 I hate you! You stink!                            ...

Here is my year-end list of books that every well-informed educator and public education advocate should read. The list is not all-inclusi...

This is my second annual year-end compilation of blog posts that attracted very little attention the first time around, but that I think a...

This is the third holiday season for Russ on Reading and the third opportunity to share some poetry for the holidays. This year, as wi...

In my last post I discussed the concept of meaningful work and how it is essential to the recruitment, development and retention of teach...