The mass folly of mass incarceration and the road back to sane prison policy.Â
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.
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The Teacher Wars: How the Idealism of LBJ and RFK Set the Stage for Today’s Education Strife
The National Teacher Corps of the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for Teach For America
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The Test Generation
What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they “grow” their students’ test scores? Colorado is about to find out.
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The Change Game
Obama’s election showed how much the country has changed; his governing has shown how much it hasn’t.
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The Innovation Administration
The White House assumes that newer ideas are always better, but that’s not necessarily the case.
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Health Reform Should Regulate the Fertility Industry.
The Times is midway through a really great series on the financial, physical, and emotional wreckage often left in the wake of extreme fertility treatments. What hasn’t been addressed — at least, so far — is how health reform would alter this landscape. As I reported in a piece for Double X, other countries highly […]
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The Charter Barter
On education — and every other social policy issue — the Obama administration must play referee among competing experts. Is it up to the task?
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About the Nobel.
One of the sad/ridiculous/poignant things about this is that the Peace Prize is something Obama could have aspired to in the later years of his presidency, or even afterward. Now, here he is at 48 years old, being awarded this incredibly prestigious prize for goals he has yet to accomplish. —Dana Goldstein
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Is “Constitutionalism” Replacing “Social Issues” for Grassroots Conservatives?
Conor Friedersdorf is working on an interesting project, “The GOP Speaks.” He e-mailed questionnaires about the future of the Republican Party to county party chairs across the country. So far he’s received 20 responses, and while a few are thoughtful and sane, a large portion claim Barack Obama is trampling upon the U.S. Constitution and […]
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On Polanski, One Last Thing.
Thank you, Jay Smooth. Hat tip: Jessica Valenti —Dana Goldstein