National correspondent @NYTimes. Author of THE TEACHER WARS.
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Dana Goldstein retweeted
May 9
A peak into life in the ai term paper trenches 🧵
3 student zoom interviews today about suspected ai use in papers. All three were flagged by @pangram. Here’s how it turned out:
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With student A.I. use/abuse now ubiquitous, professors and teachers are killing off take-home essays and papers. Students are writing inside the classroom, often by hand.
It's part of the big rethink happening on tech and learning. My new report here:
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/ai…
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We're likely to see a big political win tonight for academic rigor, in SF nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/sa…
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I'm launching a new project on how A.I. is changing writing instruction. Professors and high school teachers -- we need your help! Please fill out this brief survey: nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/ai…
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Dana Goldstein retweeted
Feb 4
Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...
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Jan 29
1. What does it mean to protest in America today? In rare cases, it can be deadly. It can also upend a life in profound ways, including losing one's livelihood and career.
That's what happened to Summer Boismier, a former teacher and the subject of my new piece.
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2. Boismier may be the only teacher in America to have lost her professional license as a result of the 20 state laws that now restrict the curriculum around race, gender, sexuality and American history. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/su…
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3. Many teachers oppose these laws and find quiet ways to resist them. But Boismier made a spectacle of her protest, and paid a heavy price. She is now mounting a federal lawsuit. I hope you'll read this story. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/su…
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Dana Goldstein retweeted
15 Dec 2025
Are You a Real New Yorker entrance exam, question #21:
If someone tells you they’re “right down the block” are they:
A) Right down the block
B) Several blocks away
C) Several train stops away
D) Still at home
E) any of the above
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13 Dec 2025
Since everyone is talking about my depressing article, here's a counterpoint: My NYC public school 3rd grader this afternoon: "We're learning to be skeptical. But to be skeptical, you have to have evidence. Otherwise, people will be skeptical of YOU!"
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12 Dec 2025
The decline in English-class book reading is very real. We did a deep dive, and found many teens assigned just 1 or 2 books per year. Instead, they're reading excerpts on a screen, like this one, 859 words of "Beloved."
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Check out the whole story here. Many surprising details and lots to debate. nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/hi…
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27 Oct 2025
A few months ago, I started to hear from history teachers that the curriculum materials they’d used for years were being pulled from the market — or that they were not being allowed to use them because of political pressures. My investigation of this trend published today ...
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25 Sep 2025
Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help: nytimes.com/2025/09/24/us/ed…
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Dana Goldstein retweeted
26 Aug 2025
important @DanaGoldstein piece on the Trump administration’s push to frame targeted school interventions to help black students (including intentionally hiring more black teachers) as illegal nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/bl…
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15 Aug 2025
Federal judge halts Trump effort to withdraw federal funding from schools and colleges with "illegal D.E.I." Judge says the effort violated administrative procedure and threatened free speech. White House likely to appeal. Link below.
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Lots of newsy tidbits in my latest story, link below. Mainstream Dems are beginning to support some forms of private-school vouchers. Obama's ed secretary, Arne Duncan, is consulting for the group trying to drive this shift....
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But the Democratic education reform camp is splitting. Some leaders who have fought for charter schools for years are appalled by the idea of vouchers. And remember -- teachers' unions are still hugely influential.
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