Putting Teen Pregnancy in Perspective
Dana GoldsteinThe media love reporting on year-to-year fluctations in the American teen birth rate. Less attention is paid to the fact that teen pregnancy is exponentially more common in the United...
View ArticleNetanyahu to Israeli Jews: Don't Marry Americans
Dana GoldsteinNew Israeli ads portray American Jews as ignorant lost souls.
View ArticleIn Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide
Dana GoldsteinAccording to new data, white and middle-class DC students are flying high, while black, Hispanic and poor children continue to lag behind their peers.
View ArticleBeyond Pink vs. Blue
Dana GoldsteinWhy gendered toys really matter: they influence the careers kids choose later on.
View ArticleA Decade of No Child Left Behind
Dana GoldsteinAssessing the landmark education legislation on its tenth anniversary.
View ArticleTeachers Matter. Now What?
Dana GoldsteinNew research shows teachers with high test scores also help kids get to college and avoid teen pregnancy. But what does it mean for teacher evaluation and pay?
View ArticleTeachers Matter. Now What?
Dana GoldsteinNew research shows teachers with high test scores help kids get to college and avoid teen pregnancy. What should this mean for teacher evaluation and pay?
View ArticleScratching the Surface of Obama's Education Rhetoric
Dana GoldsteinFrom drop-outs to teachers, dId the president’s State of the Union school reform proposals make any sense?
View ArticleCory Booker and Chris Christie: Teachers Should Live in Downtown Newark
Dana GoldsteinPoliticians and developers try to lure 200 teachers to live in a struggling Newark neighborhood. Will it improve the quality of education?
View ArticleFor-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement
Dana GoldsteinA Harper's journalist recently went undercover as a University of Phoenix student. What he found was an "education" that was anything but--and a prime example of how the 1 percent are...
View ArticleNYC to Release Teachers''Value-Added' Ratings: Why It's Not Fair
Dana GoldsteinBill Gates and Wendy Kopp agree: the volatile data reports unfairly shame teachers.
View ArticleA Brief History of the Education Culture Wars: On Santorum’s Legacy, the GOP...
Dana GoldsteinThe idea of dismantling the federal government's civil rights–driven education agenda is not new.
View ArticleRandi Weingarten: Stop the Testing Obsession
Dana GoldsteinTeachers' union leader Randi Weingarten discusses how Shanghai, Singapore and other nations are improving teaching without overemphasizing student testing. Is the Obama administration...
View ArticleAn Interview With Lisa Delpit on Educating 'Other People's Children'
Dana GoldsteinThe beloved education theorist talks about Teach for America, the intelligence of poor children, and how her own work has been misinterpreted.
View ArticleIn Defense of Peter Beinart
Dana GoldsteinBeinart's The Crisis of Zionism tells a series of important truths about Israel, the occupation and the American Jewish establishment.
View ArticleVIDEO: Are American Jews' Views Towards Israel Changing?
Dana GoldsteinJust in time for Passover, a difficult but necessary intergenerational conversation about Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
View ArticleOn Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex
Dana GoldsteinKatie Roiphe's Newsweek cover story ignores the fact that in every century and decade, sadomasochistic erotica has broken into the mainstream.
View ArticleThe Future of Vocational Education
Dana GoldsteinWould the European high school apprenticeship model work in the United States?
View ArticleOn Political Spouses and the Gay Marriage 'Evolution' Narrative
Dana GoldsteinFor years, male Democrats have credited their wives with moving them to the left on gay marriage.
View ArticleJoin Our Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform!
The NationOn May 17th at 5pm, Nation readers are invited to participate in a live chat on the role of testing in education reform with writer Dana Goldstein, teacher and blogger Mark Anderson and...
View ArticleWhat We Still Don't Know About Mitt Romney and Education
Dana GoldsteinHere are some questions the candidate wants to avoid.
View ArticleWith Youth Unemployment This High, Remind Me What's So Bad About Vocational...
Dana GoldsteinOur high schools are failing to prepare young people for an unforgiving economy.
View ArticleArne Duncan: Fund Community Colleges, Not Prisons
Dana GoldsteinOn Tuesday, the secretary of education spoke bluntly about our nation’s values.
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind Lives On
Dana GoldsteinThe New York Times asks whether the law has been “nullified.” It hasn’t been.
View ArticleHow the Body Reacts to Sexual Assault
Dana GoldsteinSenate candidate Todd Akin claimed yesterday that “legitimate rape” somehow turns off the female body’s reproductive capabilities. That is absurd.
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