Jill Barshay
COLUMN: How a federal free meal program affected school poverty stats
Student poverty rate increased only 2 percentage points after schools adopted a new lunch program for all, a Missouri study finds
COLUMN: If girls are bad at math, should we blame their mothers?
Economists calculate how sexism at home may be transmitted to daughters
COLUMN: Weakest students more likely to take online college classes but do worse in them
Survey of rigorous academic research on online education finds lower grades and higher drop out rates
COLUMN: Immigrants learned English in half the time when they were held back in third grade
Florida study tracked more than 40,000 English language learners over a decade
COLUMN: Recessionary cuts in public education restored by 2015-16
That's important because recent studies find that higher school spending produces higher student achievement
COLUMN: Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students
Potential signs of long-lasting problems for low-achieving students
COLUMN: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM
NYC high school entrance exam finds brightest girls do better in STEM classes than on standardized entrance exams
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COLUMN: 10 of the most important stories about education research in 2018
Insights into implicit bias in the classroom, declining numbers of students and educating immigrant students
COLUMN: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation
A 2018 federal report found that only 18 percent of the innovations funded by the Education Department lifted student achievement
COLUMN: The debate over students with disabilities, suspensions and race
New research finds that disabilities might have nothing to do with why black students are suspended more than white students