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Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect and The Daily Beast, is a Spencer Fellow in education reporting at Columbia University. Her work on politics, women’s issues, and education has appeared in BusinessWeek, Slate, The New Republic, and The Nation.

Recent Articles

Jon Kyl and Insurance Company Discrimination Against Women.

Dana GoldsteinSep 28, 2009

I've been wanting to say a little more about the touching "your mom" moment shared by Senators Debbie Stabenow and John Kyl last week. To refresh our memories:

On Yom Kippur, Thoughts on Gaza and the Goldstone Report.

Dana GoldsteinSep 28, 2009

Even at a J Street event I attended in Washington two weeks ago, there was some condemnation of the United Nations' Goldstone Report on last winter's Gaza war. The report found that both the Israeli army and Hamas were guilty of war crimes -- Israel of using excessive force to deliberately target civilians (such as bombing a Mosque during a service), and Hamas of launching rockets into Israel and using its own civilians as human shields.

Why Obama is Winning on Education.

Dana GoldsteinSep 25, 2009

I wrote yesterday about the Obama administration's ambitious, yet somehow narrow definition of school reform. Today in the Washington Post, Randi Weingarten, the nation's most influential teachers' union leader, speaks in rather harsh terms about the administration:

Earth to Jon Kyl: Everyone Gets Born.

Dana GoldsteinSep 25, 2009

On the floor of the Senate, Debbie Stabenow vs. Jon Kyl:

--Dana Goldstein

Broadening the Education Agenda.

Dana GoldsteinSep 24, 2009

An appreciated little surprise in Education Secretary Arne Duncan's big speech today, in which he seemed to put NCLB reauthorization on the legislative agenda for 2010: While reminiscing about Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," penned in 1963, Duncan mentioned the persistence of school segregation:

This was nine years after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools violated the Constitution, but most minorities were still isolated in their own classrooms. Many still are today and we must work together to change that.

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