Dana Goldstein
National correspondent @NYTimes & author of THE TEACHER WARS. Education, gender/race/class, criminal justice, history, books.
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What Do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates?
Presidential campaigns have a sound. We analyzed the playlists of 10 presidential candidates to see how the songs align with their core message.
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I need to tweet this again because it is FANTASTIC. I gotta say: Kamala and Beto are the clear music primary winners for me. Stick to the end for Trump's surprise love of gay artists!
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Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell
A struggle in California, one of three states creating K-12 ethnic studies materials, highlights some of the fraught questions around the discipline.
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1. My new piece: “Hxrstory.” “Cisheteropartriachy.” “Accompliceship.” Critics say California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum is “progressive to the point of self-parody.” Supporters say it "honors students as young intellectuals."
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How a State Plans to Turn Coal Country Into Coding Country
Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science.
‘Separate Programs for Separate Communities’: California School District Agrees to Desegregate
The Sausalito Marin City School District knowingly maintained segregation, according to court papers, and even established a segregated school.
Reporting on a Very Bad Year for the College Admissions Industry
Following the trail left by the Varsity Blues investigation, reporters are uncovering everyday educational inequality, and also cases of outright fraud.
Need Extra Time on Tests? It Helps to Have Cash.
Demand for disability accommodations for schoolwork and testing has swelled. But access to them is unequal and the process is vulnerable to abuse.
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This was a tough one to write. I was diagnosed with anxiety at age 13 and benefited greatly from treatment. But the class and race disparities here are huge -- and impacting students' grades, test scores and college acceptances. With @jugalpatelNYT
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1. New investigation from @jugalpatelNYT and me: In the top 1 percent of richest school districts, teens are 2x as likely to hold a disability plan that qualifies them for extended time on SAT/ACT and schoolwork. In some places, it's 7x the national rate. nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/… pic.twitter.com/290io4lx87
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I'll be on @KQED, 12-1 ET, to discuss our investigation on inequity in disability accommodations like extra time on SAT. I've pulled data on wealthy schools in Bay Area/CA where rates are way above the national average. Listen to find out where they are.
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How can it be wrong to give to your kid’s school?
A school district tried to share rich parents’ donations with poor schools. You will believe what happened next.
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This is so cool: @dylanmatt and @byrdala turned one of my fave pieces ever, about inequities in PTA funding in Santa Monica/Malibu and across the nation, into a podcast episode. vox.com/future-perfect… Here's the original piece nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/…
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Busing Changed Countless Lives. We Want to Hear From Those Who Have Experienced It.
Do you or your children have experience being transported to a school as part of integration efforts, either in the past or today?
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Have you or your children been part of a busing program used to integrate schools? We want to hear your story. Submit here.
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Left Behind?
Ten African American teenagers cluster together in the center of a public high school classroom in Ossining, a northern suburb of New York City. School ended half an hour ago; in the hallway outside,
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2. I learned I had been part of a desegregation plan in '07, as a journalist. I reported on how my home town was trying to close the achievement gap, finally accepting that integration would not be enough w/out addressing tracking and other issues.
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Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.
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Important look at single-family zoning by @emilymbadger and @qdbui. This is one reason why schools are segregated, why teachers can't afford to live where they work, and why school enrollment/funding are declining in cities like LA
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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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