Alexander William Warburg Russo is an American

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writer whose

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, ''This Week In Education'', was named one of the best education blogs by ''

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'' for 2010. He is also a Spencer Fellow at the Journalism School of Columbia University.

Personal life

He is the son of

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William Russo and his second wife, Jeremy Warburg. His mother is a granddaughter of Vanity Fair publisher

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and

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-American banker Felix Warburg. He has two half sisters, Camille Blinstrub and Whitney Schildgen, and a full sister, Condée Nast Russo.

Career

Russo is the

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of the 2004 volume ''School Reform In Chicago'' (Harvard Education Press) and the author of ''Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors'' (

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), a

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account of the effort by

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and

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to revamp

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, featured in the May 2009 ''

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'' article "The Instigator".

References

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