For those of us who’ve been watching this train wreck — or rather, this slow, screeching halt — up close, this news comes as no surprise, but a New York Times eulogy somehow makes it official: No Child Left Behind won’t be reauthorized this year, after all. Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Education […]
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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UTAH LIKELY REJECTED LARGE VOUCHER PROGRAM.
It’s been a long day and I’m about to go to sleep, but I just couldn’t turn in without sharing with you all that according to early ballot returns, Utahns today, as expected, likely rejected their state Republican Party’s proposal to create what would have been the largest private school voucher program in the nation. […]
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FACILE HOLOCAUST ANALOGIES = NOT COOL.
Today the Washington Post reports on a 16-year old Virginia girl who sued her public school district after it denied her the right to form an anti-choice student group. The district — which already had Young Republican, Young Democrat, and Christian Athletes clubs — eventually reversed its decision. For the record, I support all students’ […]
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A LOOK AT A REAL-WORLD VOUCHER PROPOSAL.
Last week’s voucher debate was rooted mostly in the theoretical. So allow me to continue the discussion by pointing toward Utah, where voters will go to the polls tomorrow to either approve or reject a GOP-proposed referendum that would provide $430 million over 13 years for private school vouchers. In its first year, supporters are […]
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HOW SHOULD DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION?
I’m one of the most frequently pro-immigrant voices here at TAPPED, but that doesn’t mean I’m naive about the electoral challenges progressives are facing on the issue. E.J. Dionne writes at The New Republic: One poll finding this week that shook Democrats came in a survey conducted by Democracy Corps, a consortium organized by party […]
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UNMARRIED WOMEN: THE EVANGELICALS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
A lot of attention gets paid to the gap between the way white men and white women vote. But a new report by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research helpfully points out that the “marriage gap” is far deeper than the gender gap: Democrats beat Republicans among unmarried voters by 32 points in the 2006 Congressional elections, […]
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HOW EDWARDS ALMOST DIDN’T GET THE N.H. SEIU ENDORSEMENT.
NBC’s Aswini Anburajan reports: If Rodney Woodill hadn’t received a call from his wife Tuesday night, asking him to come home because his two-week old baby was sick, Edwards might have never won the endorsement of New Hampshire Service Employees Association, part of the Service Employees International Union. Woodill, who represents 900 county and municipal […]
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MORE PRIVATE SCHOOLS WON’T SOLVE EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY.
Real-life voucher programs, as Scott points out, tend to accommodate far too few students to make a difference in the systemic way we educate poor children in this country. But to respond to a point Megan McArdle made in an earlier post on vouchers, let’s imagine for a moment that every child in an underperforming […]
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BEAT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP THROUGH RACIAL TARGETING?
In suburban Chicago, an integrated school with a 13 percent African American population — many of whom are struggling academically — is trying something controversial to close the achievement gap: racially segregated extra help for minority students, including an all-black ACT prep class and a peer tutoring program for non-white students. In our December print […]
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HRC UPDATE.
Hillary clarifies: She does support Gov. Spitzer‘s (potentially unworkable) plan to issue three different classes of driver’s licenses in New York, including one for undocumented immigrants. Also, she’s earned the AFSCME endorsement. From over the cubicle walls, Ann comments, “That’s so big in Iowa.” —Dana Goldstein
