Alexander Russo
This Week In Education
Reporter / Blogger / Author
Brooklyn, New York
Alexander Russo is a writer, author, and editor whose latest project, THE GRADE, is an effort to help improve the quality of mainstream education journalism. He was a 2009 Spencer Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and his 2011 book, Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors (Jossey-Bass/Wiley), chronicled the effort to rescue a long-neglected South Central Los Angeles High School. Before he began writing, Russo served as an education adviser to two US senators and the chancellor of the New York City public schools, and as a high school English teacher and education researcher.