Welcoming Dana Goldstein
Blog Post
Sept. 13, 2011
Each year in September, the New America Foundation welcomes a new group of Schwartz Fellows, a cadre of journalists, academics and other public policy analysts who have distinguished themselves with fresh and often provocative writing on myriad topics. This year, the Early Education Initiative is fortunate to be a beneficiary of this program: Dana Goldstein, one of this year's cohort of fellows, will be an occasional guest editor for our blog, as well as a brainstorming partner in helping the initiative think through many of the big issues affecting early education in the coming years.
Dana is a freelance education reporter based in New York who covers a wide array of issues facing PreK-12 education and a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute, in addition to her fellowship at New America. She has written for the Nation, the Daily Beast, the American Prospect, and other publications, while also maintaining her own blog. She's now at work on a book on the political history of teaching in America. Among her recent pieces:
The Risks and Potential Rewards of Pre-K 'Testing' - The Nation
The Obama administration is spending $500 million on a grant program that will include assessments of young children. What will those assessments look like in the classroom?
Diane Ravitch, the Anti-Michelle-Rhee -Washington City Paper
A look at the life and intellectual history of the preeminent education historian and policy wonk, best known for switching sides in the school reform debate.
The Test Generation - The American Prospect
What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they "grow" their students' test scores? Colorado is about to find out.
Should All Kids Go to College? - The Nation
Some progressive education reformers have attempted to move beyond the old emotional debates about tracking and expectations, and are sounding the call for a more intellectual version of vocational education.
Welcome, Dana. We're excited to have you on board.