This summer, the National Governors Association partnered with the standardized testing industry and 47 states to create national education standards for high school students. Yesterday the coalition released its initial draft standards in English/language arts and math. On English/language arts in particular, it would be too generous to call the results a “curriculum;” the draft […]
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 Wrong Side of the Mommy Track
The Good Wife? More like The Get Back to Work Wife. CBS’ new drama is less about political marriage and more about a generation of opt-out women who are headed back to work.
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Taylor Branch on the Clintons.
Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian, is releasing a new book this month called The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. A friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton dating back to their days on the McGovern campaign in Texas, Branch and President Clinton recorded hundreds of hours of interviews together over the […]
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Obama, David Paterson, and Democratic Party-Building.
Although Barack Obama is the president of the United States, it’s often easy to forget he is also the national leader of the Democratic Party, with his stubbornly bipartisan strategy on almost every policy issue. Not so yesterday. I was in New York, and the front pages of the Times, Daily News, and New York […]
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Integrate Expectations
The Obama administration is pressuring suburbs to end segregated housing but ignoring their history of segregated schools.
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The Baucus Plan Punishes Single People — Especially Single Moms.
I want to say a little more about the “free rider” provision in the Baucus health plan, which Tim highlighted this morning. The HELP Committee and House bills require most employers to provide health insurance for their workers. But the Baucus plan does not include such an employer mandate. Instead, it requires companies to partially […]
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The Baucus Health Plan, on Abortion and Immigration.
Max Baucus released his Senate Finance Committee health reform plan today, and there are no huge surprises. As Ezra writes, low subsidies and high premiums mean health care costs will continue to cause personal bankruptcy for many unlucky Americans. The better news is that Baucus expands the health insurance exchanges to large employers; in the […]
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How Will Young Adults Afford Insurance?
There’s been some grumbling that young people haven’t mobilized for health reform as strongly as they did for Obama during election season. Katha Pollitt expressed the sentiment in a column last month: We need you to stand on street corners handing out fliers that explain what healthcare reform is really all about and how people […]
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Paulites, Progressives, Health Reform…and the U.S. Constitution.
The United States Constitution has taken on major significance in the health reform debate, with grassroots “teabaggers” calling universal health care — and indeed, much social spending — unconstitutional. In a piece for the Daily Beast, I reported on how this Constitutional originalism is borrowed from the Ron Paul campaign. (Ironically, many Paulites and teabaggers, […]
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More on Domestic Violence and Health Reform.
Regarding my earlier post, it’s important to point out that insurance company discrimination against domestic violence victims applies regardless of whether the woman is still married to or living with the abuser. In other words, women who have successfully left an abusive relationship and turned their lives around continue to be punished for a crime […]
