On Bloggingheads last week, the Weekly Standard‘s Matt Continetti and I discussed how the Department of Education should spend its $5 billion “race to the top” stimulus fund, which is supposed to support innovation and reform at the state and local level. We also found that we agreed — think of that! — on the issue of national curriculum standards.

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—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.