“YOU CAN BA-ROCK ME TONIGHT”. Hillary leads Obama by 6 points among young women voters. But can she compete against Obama’s dreaminess? Check out the newest volley in the election 2008 Internet video wars, “I Got a Crush…On Obama.” Opening lines: “You seemed to float onto the floor, Democratic convention 2004. I never wanted anybody […]
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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Hillary and the Chick Factor
The Clinton campaign woos young women voters at an event in D.C. — and illustrates the significance of the gender gap in the Democratic field.
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THE CHARISMA FACTOR.
THE CHARISMA FACTOR. A little late, but I can’t help weighing in on last night’s debate. One of the biggest surprises of this primary thus far has got to be who’s engaging and who’s a disappointment on the stump. Although there’s tremendous energy when Obama enters a room (I’ve seen him speak in person three […]
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THANK GOD FOR DIVIDED GOVERNMENT.
THANK GOD FOR DIVIDED GOVERNMENT. As Scott noted yesterday, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on pay discrimination is disastrous. Employees must file complaints within 180 days of a salary being set, which is simply outside the bounds of common sense. We all know how much secrecy surrounds pay, even in otherwise congenial workplaces. But the […]
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WHO DESERVES TO LEARN?
WHO DESERVES TO LEARN? Last week we heard about high school students coloring in class. Today The New York Times reports on New York City’s decision to close its four “P-schools,” second-rate high schools opened in the 1960s with the intention of hiding pregnant teenagers from the eyes of their peers: The decision to close […]
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NO IOWA FOR HILLARY?
NO IOWA FOR HILLARY? Oh, the intrigue! The New York Times‘ Adam Nagourney reports that Hillary Clinton‘s number 2 campaign aide, Mike Henry, authored a memo advising Clinton to skip the Iowa caucuses entirely and focus on states she is more likely to win, such as New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and Florida. How did […]
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IMMIGRATION RESET.
IMMIGRATION RESET. Like Ezra, my thinking so far is that the Senate-White House compromise on immigration reform is better than nothing, especially for the 12 million undocumented people already living, working, and paying taxes in the United States who can now become legitimate, open members of society. The strengthening of border security wasn’t a surprise. […]
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WHO’S PREPARED FOR COLLEGE?
WHO’S PREPARED FOR COLLEGE? J. asks a good question about my comparison between French and American high schools. Do the French prepare fewer kids for college, and is that why their bac exam is more challenging and predictive of educational success? Here’s the answer: About half of French high school students, or 600,000 people, sit […]
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COLOR ME UNPREPARED.
COLOR ME UNPREPARED. The poor state of our nation’s high schools in the era of No Child Left Behind is almost overwhelming. A new report from ACT, the college-prep testing service that administers the popular alternative to the SAT, finds that even when students take the federally recommended college preparatory curriculum of four years of […]
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BLOGGING LIKE GRAFFITI?
BLOGGING LIKE GRAFFITI? Apropos of discussions about old-style journalists’ “delicacy” when faced with criticisms from the blogosphere, comes this curious analogy in Lauren Collins‘ riveting New Yorker article on Banksy, the elusive (and rather progressive!) British graffiti artist: The graffitist’s impulse is akin to a blogger’s: write some stuff, quickly, which people may or may […]
