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Author Archives: Jill Barshay

Jill Barshay writes the weekly “Proof Points” column about education research and data, covering a range of topics from early childhood to higher education. She taught algebra to ninth-graders for the 2013-14 school year. Previously, Barshay was the New York bureau chief for Marketplace, a national business show on public radio stations. She has also written for Congressional Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times, and appeared on CNN and ABC News. She was a 2016-17 Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting. In 2019 she received the American Educational Research Association's award for excellence in media reporting on education research. A graduate of Brown University, Barshay holds master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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PROOF POINTS: Computer scientists create tool that can desegregate schools – and shorten bus routes

by Jill Barshay July 5, 2022July 2, 2022

One out of every six white school children in the United States – nearly four million white students  –  attend schools that are 90 percent or more white, according to the most recent federal data from 2019. A similar share of Hispanic children, totaling two million students, attend schools that are all or nearly all […]

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PROOF POINTS: States and localities pump more money into community colleges than four-year campuses

by Jill Barshay June 20, 2022June 17, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: Rethinking claims of racial bias in special education

by Jill Barshay June 13, 2022June 10, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: In two places, researchers find problems with expansion of free pre-K

by Jill Barshay June 6, 2022June 3, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: How do you find a gifted child?

by Jill Barshay May 31, 2022May 26, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

by Jill Barshay May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: New evidence of high school grade inflation

by Jill Barshay May 16, 2022May 13, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: Seven questions for Jennifer Randall 

by Jill Barshay May 9, 2022May 23, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

by Jill Barshay May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
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PROOF POINTS: Reconsidering the benefits of desegregation

by Jill Barshay April 18, 2022April 29, 2022

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