Photo via Flickr user Long Island Business News. Yesterday NARAL: Pro-Choice America endorsed Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand in the New York special Senate primary slated for September 2010. Gillibrand has gotten mixed reviews since her January appointment to Hillary Clinton‘s seat, with some New Yorkers critiquing her lack of legislative gravitas, while others are still stewing […]
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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Recession Depression
The authors of Womenomics are telling employees to demand work-life balance — or else! But in a bleak economic climate, most women workers lack real bargaining power.
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FORMER BRITISH IRAN AMBASSADOR: REGIME UNLIKELY TO FALL.
This afternoon, Sir Richard Dalton, the former British ambassador to Iran (2002-2006), spoke at the New American Foundation. He made a few provocative statements on the Iranian unrest, alleging “the Islamic Republic of Iran is not unraveling.” Why not? Civil society and military institutions, Dalton observed, have largely hedged their bets in the wake of […]
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Testing Testing
Beneath the feel-good press releases about national education standards lie unresolved policy differences.
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BREAKING: GOOD NEWS FROM SCOTUS ON STRIP SEARCHES.
On the heels of its surprise upholding of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has now ruled, 8-1, that Safford, Arizona, middle school officials broke the law when they strip-searched a 13-year-old girl, Savana Redding, because they suspected she was carrying ibuprofen. Retiring Justice David Souter, who seemed somewhat skeptical of […]
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DISGRUNTLED POST ABOUT MARK SANFORD.
It was just this morning that I was swearing, in our daily editorial meeting, to never, ever write anything about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford‘s jaunt to Argentina. Now I feel overtaken by events, by the sheer importance and newsiness and depth of this story, and I cannot stay silent. So to recap: Sanford has […]
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WHAT SCHOOL CHOICE LOOKS LIKE.
New York City, with its well-developed network of small schools and charters, is seen as a nationwide model of public school choice. Of course, it is the wealthiest and most educated families who have learned how to access those choices. At GothamSchools, Philissa Cramer does a bang-up job of explaining how “choice” can lead to […]
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NIXON’S OUTRAGEOUSLY RACIST ABORTION STATEMENT.
There is something really fishy about people who seem unable to talk about abortion without also talking about race. First, there’s the Mike Huckabee/Sam Brownback version of the disease: Folks who compare abortion to the Holocaust and slavery. The implication is clear: The lives of fully sentient human beings living outside the womb, those who […]
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SCOTUS: SCHOOL DISTRICTS MUST PAY FOR PRIVATE SPECIAL-ED COSTS.
Amid the excitement over yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, another decision was lost in the shuffle: In Forest Grove School District v. T.A., the Court reaffirmed that local school districts must reimburse the parents of special education students for private school costs. The case concerned a high school […]
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THE FEMALE FACE OF THE IRANIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT.
A San Francisco protester holds a photo of “Neda,” via Flickr user Steve Rhodes The video circulating of the death of “Neda,” the Iranian woman shot through the heart protesting in Tehran on Saturday, further cements women’s faces as symbols of this uprising. The mullahs are aware that feminist fervor and frustration is, in part, […]
