Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein is a Brooklyn-based journalist, a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Fellow at the Nation Institute.

Can Big Data Save American Schools? Bill Gates Is Betting on Yes

Can Big Data Save American Schools? Bill Gates Is Betting on Yes

The world's largest private charity is taking the strategy it sharpened while fighting malaria and malnutrition in Africa to target under-achievement in the U.S. public-school system.Reuters Bill Gates trumpeted his numbers-driven approach to philanthropy at a Manhattan meeting with six reporters and writers, including myself, Wednesday afternoon, where he laid out his wish list for how to improve data-gathering efforts to address social, health, and economic… More »

Can 4 Economists Build the Most Economically Efficient Charity Ever?

Can 4 Economists Build the Most Economically Efficient Charity Ever?

GiveDirectly, the brainchild of four Harvard and MIT graduate students, is so simple, it's genius. Give poor Kenyan families $1,000 -- and let them do whatever they want with it. More »

Issue October 2012

The Schoolmaster

David Coleman is an idealistic, poetry-loving, controversy-stoking Rhodes Scholar and a former McKinsey consultant who has determined, more than almost anyone else, what kids learn in American schools. His national curriculum standards and pending overhaul of the SAT have reignited a thorny national debate over how much we should expect from students and schools, and how much is out of their control.

Connect Teenagers to the World of Work

Connect Teenagers to the World of Work

Students are less likely to drop-out and more likely to enjoy school when they see their classes as relevant to their future. More »

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