Dana Goldstein
National correspondent @NYTimes & author of THE TEACHER WARS. Education, gender/race/class, criminal justice, history, books.
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Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
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Well, @NickHanauer is one of those people who is always interesting. One of the tough things about covering education is that while research shows schools are a modest lever to close macro inequality gaps, they are transformative in individual lives
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Your Questions about the New Adversity Score on the SAT, Answered
What factors does it consider, and is it based on research? We explain.
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The new adversity score from the College Board contains 31 measures. None are of race.
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Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions
Selective colleges and universities know that for robust diversity, both are essential.
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3. It's important to note that in the past, race-neutral, class-conscious tools have not achieved as much racial diversity as affirmative action has.
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‘Threatening the Future’: The High Stakes of Deepening School Segregation
In a multiracial America, school segregation looks very different than it did in 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education. But it still persists.
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Brown v Board at 65: Latinos are now the most intensely segregated group of students, and four liberal states have the deepest segregation for black children. My report on the new data
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Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’
How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.
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Typically bracing reporting from @clairecm. Anyone want to break the 3rd wall and discuss whether it's possible to be a journalist in 2019 and not be "always on"? I think about this as I'm responding to emails in front of my kid. Still: love what I do.
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San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse.
A system devised to empower parents and integrate schools has not worked as intended, offering a cautionary tale to districts across the country.
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San Francisco created a kindergarten enrollment system so complicated that parents call it a months-long part-time job. It was supposed to integrate schools. But segregation got worse. My new story.
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3. Here's the thing we should talk about (paging Joe Biden): The "old" way of desegregating, with busses and court orders and deliberate zoning? Where fully implemented, it worked. The new way? Driven by parental choice? It doesn't seem to work as well.
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1. I spent 4 months following a group of families in San Francisco, all of whom have 4-year olds enrolling in kindergarten. I wanted to see how it happens that in 40 percent of America's biggest cities, schools are more segregated than neighborhoods.
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Parkland Is Tearing Itself Apart
And the fight within the still-grieving community has nothing to do with gun control.
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incredibly important piece by @kathrynajoyce. It's difficult to describe, but it's about school violence, student discipline, special-ed, racial disparities, Obama's legacy, and the power of changing one's mind.
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Is the U.S. a Democracy? A Social Studies Battle Turns on the Nation’s Values
Michigan spent five years debating how to teach American history. One of the biggest questions was how to describe the nation’s government.
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Michigan put the Flint water crisis and Japanese internment into its state social studies standards. Redlining, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Black Lives Matter and James Madison were not included. Inside a 5-year fight to write the nation's story.
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Is the United States a "democracy" or a "constitutional republic"? Historians say both. But simple questions led to a partisan brawl when Michigan citizens gathered to rewrite the state social studies standards. Here's how they tried to get to consensus.
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There is a national conservative movement to refer to the nation as a "republic" and not a "democracy" in school curriculum materials. Here's how that move led to a backlash in Michigan, and a new attempt to write the nation's history for its kids.
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Texas Says Most of Its Students Aren’t Reading at Grade Level. But Are Its Tests Fair?
Many educators in Texas are pushing back against a testing system they say is setting children up to fail.
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1. We heard in January that Texas reading tests were oddly constructed and graded. After a deep dive into the tests and how they're used in schools, we found a punitive, high-stakes system that is terribly confusing for families and educators.
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Los Angeles Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
The settlement came after tens of thousands of teachers marched in downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside schools for six school days.
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The LA strike was about something more than classroom funding and pay: It offered teachers' unions a big, dramatic stage to put forth an alternate narrative about urban education, what's wrong with it, and how to help it.
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Democrats Are United on Teacher Strikes. But They’re in a ‘Gladiator Fight’ Over Education.
Unified support for picketing educators in Los Angeles belies deep rifts in the Democratic Party on one of the strike’s causes: the rise of charter schools.
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This is no longer Barack Obama's Democratic Party: From Booker to Harris to Gillibrand to Sanders, presidential hopefuls are lining up to support a striking teachers' union that opposes charter schools.
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Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike Live Updates: Demands for More Pay and More Help
Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school system are demanding smaller classes and larger support staff. Officials say they cannot afford to say yes.
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1. Let's put teaching in Los Angeles in national context, using numbers. First off: pay. The average LA teacher makes $13,000 less than the average NYC teacher. This is a helpful comparison because both cities are very expensive places to live. nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/… pic.twitter.com/gEqS0bZRJb
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Los Angeles Braces for Major Teachers’ Strike
After months of failed negotiations, teachers are expected to walk off the job on Thursday, in a show of frustration in the second-largest school system in the country.
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1. Our preview of the likely, enormous teacher strike in LA on Thursday. The issues are pay, class size, funding for support professionals, and expansion of the charter sector. With @jennymedina
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The Fight to Keep Teachers in Tech Hubs From Being Priced Out
Educators in expensive cities are turning to radical solutions, from subsidized, district-owned apartments to mortgage assistance funded by charity.
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My dispatch on the California housing wars: The city of San Jose is rolling out the red carpet for Google employees, even as teachers say they can't afford to live in the heart of Silicon Valley. Can the tech sector and the public sector coexist?
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A Silicon Valley teacher said he was shocked by parents who opposed affordable housing for educators. "Families trust us with their kids from 8 to 3 every day. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be the case that they would trust us in their communities."
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Nation’s First Teachers’ Strike at Charter Network Begins in Chicago
The action comes during a year of teacher protests, which until now had been at district schools in conservative or swing states.
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🚨 BREAKING: A historic first as charter school teachers begin strike in Chicago. It has been an unprecedented year for teacher activism across the nation. The main issue? How public dollars are spent.
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Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality.
T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
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Wow. The horrific story behind those viral college admission videos. By @EricaLG and @AnnieWaldman
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Wow. Horrific story behind those viral college admission videos. By @EricaLG and @ktbenner
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Are Civics Lessons a Constitutional Right? These Students Are Suing for Them
Many see the lack of civics in schools as a national crisis. A federal lawsuit says it also violates the law.
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My piece on a federal lawsuit to be filed tomorrow: The latest attempt to get the Supreme Court to revisit its 45-year old precedent that equal access to quality education is *not* a constitutional right.
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The Suburbs Are Changing. But Not in All the Ways Liberals Hope.
Though Democrats dominated the suburbs in the midterms, some of those gains may be fragile.
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important piece with big education implications, by @qdbui @emilymbadger @jshkatz. On school segregation, many suburban voters remain fundamentally conservative
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Harvard Admissions Dean Testifies as Affirmative Action Trial Begins
A lawsuit accusing the university of discriminating against Asian-American applicants promised to reveal how the highly selective institution shapes its incoming classes.
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1. You should be following @anemonanyc this week, who's in Boston for the Harvard admissions trial. Whatever you think of affirmative action, the trial will provide an unprecedented peek into the secretive world of Ivy League admissions.
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How Special Education Is Failing T.J. and Many Children Like Him
One of 200,000 students in New York’s public schools classified as having a disability, T.J. is 12 and reads at a first-grade level, after years in a system awash in delays, misinformation and confusion.
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A swan song on the education beat from @Liz_A_Harris, who is off to the culture desk. And it's such an important piece.
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