Dana Goldstein is an American journalist and the author of ''The Teacher Wars'', published by Doubleday and a ''New York Times'' best seller. She is currently a domestic correspondent at ''

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'' and has worked as a staff writer at The Marshall Project and as an associate editor at

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. She received a Bernard L. Schwartz fellowship from the New America Foundation, a

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Fellowship in Education Journalism from Columbia University, and a Puffin Fellowship from The Nation Institute. Her work on politics, education, and women's issues has appeared in national publications including ''

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'', '' Slate'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Goldstein grew up in Ossining, New York. She graduated from Brown University, where she studied

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and cultural

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with a focus on

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, in 2006. She lived and worked in

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during 2004.

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* * * * * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Brown University alumni Columbia University fellows People from Oceanside, New York People from Ossining, New York {{US-journalist-20thC-stub