In the 2020 Netflix documentary series “Babies,” a University of California, Merced, psychologist explained a startling discovery he made in 2008 as a graduate student: early walkers not only have more advanced gross motor skills but also larger vocabularies than babies who are only crawling. The psychologist, Eric Walle, still doesn’t know exactly why. Maybe […]
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.
