Alexander Russo is the son of American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 William Russo

William Russo (musician)

William Russo, better known as Bill Russo , was an American jazz musician. He is considered one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers.-History:...

 and Jeremy Warburg (grand-daughter of Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

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 publisher Conde Nast

Condé Montrose Nast

Condé Montrose Nast was the founder of Condé Nast Publications, a leading American magazine publisher known for publications such as Vanity Fair, Vogue and The New Yorker.-Background:...

 and German-American banker Felix Warburg)

Russo is a freelance education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 writer whose blog

Blog

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, This Week In Education, was named one of the best education blogs by the Washington Post for 2010.

Russo is the editor

Editor

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 of the 2004 volume School Reform In Chicago (Harvard Education Press) and the author of Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors (Jossey-Bass), a nonfiction account of the effort by Steve Barr

Steve Barr (educational innovator)

Steve Barr is the founder of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school organization that runs schools in New York and southern California.-References:...

 and Green Dot Public Schools

Green Dot Public Schools

Green Dot is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles which operates ten public schools in Greater Los Angeles.Green Dot is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles which operates ten public schools in Greater Los Angeles.Green Dot is a nonprofit...

 to revamp Locke High School

Locke High School

Alain Leroy Locke High School is a Title 1 co-educational charter high school located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District/Green Dot Public Schools. It is named after Alain LeRoy Locke....

 featured in the May 2009 New Yorker

The New Yorker

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article "The Instigator".

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