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I'm a journalist and the author of "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession." The book was published by Doubleday in 2014 and was a New York Times bestseller. It is now out in paperback.

I grew up in Ossining, New York. Then I went to Brown University, where I studied history. I've worked as a reporter and editor at The Marshall Project, The Daily Beast, and The American Prospect, and I contribute to publications like Slate, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Hopefully I will write more books! I think they will combine my interests in history, literature, gender, justice, and social policy.

I live in Brooklyn. ...more

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“Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, W. E. B. DuBois, and Lyndon B. Johnson are just a few of the famous Americans who taught. They resisted the fantasy of educators as saints or saviors, and understood teaching as a job in which the potential for children’s intellectual transcendence and social mobility, though always present, is limited by real-world concerns such as poor training, low pay, inadequate supplies, inept administration, and impoverished students and families. These teachers’ stories, and those of less well-known teachers, propel this history forward and help us understand why American teaching has evolved into such a peculiar profession, one attacked and admired in equal proportion.”
― Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

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“In short, teachers are more, not less, likely than many other workers to get fired.”
― Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

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“Yet annual pay for entry-level elementary school teachers, 97 percent of whom were women, had been frozen for twenty years at $500 (about $13,300 in today’s dollars).”
― Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

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