Debra Viadero of Education Week highlights a new study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. When the district ended its 30-year old busing program — reverting to racially segregated neighborhood schools — high-performing teachers fled schools that became predominantly black and poor. This research, by Cornell labor economist C. Kirabo Jackson, is significant […]
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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QUOTE OF THE DAY: GOP DEATH-SPIRAL EDITION.
Former Bush spin-meister Mark McKinnon, on the GOP: The Republican party right now is clawing its way to the bottom. They’ve got 23 percent of the American electorate supporting them. They’re seen as a sort of bitter, partisan party right now: anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic. I just think that this sends a lot of the wrong signals […]
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OH NO: WHO WILL REPRESENT WHITE MALES ON THE COURT?
Sen. James Inhofe: In the months ahead, it will be important for those of us in the U.S. Senate to weigh [Sonia Sotomayor’s] qualifications and character as well as her ability to rule fairly without undue influence from her own personal race, gender, or political preferences. Yes. Because the worldviews of John Roberts, Sam Alito, […]
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KEEPING THE CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE RULING IN PERSPECTIVE.
The California Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Proposition 8, the ballot initiative than banned gay marriage in the state, while refusing to de-certify the 18,000 legal same-sex marriages that took place last year. At The Nation, Richard Kim urges activists to think twice before rushing toward an expensive battle to overturn Prop 8 at […]
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ARE DOCTORS BIASED AGAINST NON-HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL?
As a young teenager, I had a really cheesy poster on my bedroom wall entitled “How to Be a Fabulous Feminist.” One of the items on the list was “Visualize perfect birth control.” At the age of 14, this confounded me. Weren’t the pill and condoms supposed to work pretty much perfectly? Of course, adults […]
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Exit Strategy
A new study assessing the withdrawal method finds it is nearly as effective as condoms. Should we teach it to teenagers?
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Pink-Collar Blues
Many male-dominated professions are suffering an epidemic of job loss. But women aren’t faring so well in the recession, either.
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DO CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO HOSTS EVER HAVE SEX?
At The American Scene, Conor Friedersdorf transcribes this absolutely appalling exchange between conservative talk radio host Mark Levin and a female caller, who was gently defending Obama‘s Guantanamo policy: MARK LEVIN: Answer me this, are you a married woman? Yes or no? CALLER: Yes. MARK LEVIN: Well I don’t know why your husband doesn’t put […]
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ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE NEW YORK TERROR SUSPECTS.
In a political climate in which anti-Semitism is often used as an excuse for bellicosity toward Iran and the larger Muslim world — as well as an excuse for stalemating on peace between Israel and the Palestinians — it’s very important to realize that the terrorist suspects arrested in New York yesterday were one Haitian […]
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GIDEON LEVY: OBAMA MUST “SAVE ISRAEL FROM ITSELF.”
Philip Weiss writes that this Gideon Levy column in Haaretz reminds him that “the things I love about my Jewish culture–intellectual honesty and sensitivity–are alive in Israel, in the likes of writers like him. Why hasn’t any American writer–why haven’t I for that matter–said what was obvious about the Obama–Netanyahu meeting? Netanyahu looked like a […]
