Jill Barshay

Jill Barshay, a senior reporter at The Hechinger Report, 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.

Work by Jill Barshay

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Study Finds Workplace Experience Critical to Career Pathways Programs

Authored byJill Barshay

Career “pathways” have become a big idea in high school reform. The goal is to give all students a structured sequence of courses in a career field…

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AI Essay Feedback Differs by Student Race and Gender, Study Finds

Authored byJill Barshay

As schools introduce artificial intelligence into the classroom, a new analysis suggests that these tools could be steering students in different directions…

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Education Researchers Called on to Defend the Future of the Institute of Education Sciences

Authored byJill Barshay

It’s a bit like asking patients in intensive care to make the case for their own treatment. Federal education research — the system that tracks student learning…

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A New Blueprint for Rebuilding the Institute of Education Sciences

Authored byJill Barshay

A year ago, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept into the Department of Education and devastated its research arm, the Institute of Education…

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Small Schools’ Long-Term Effects on Student Outcomes

Authored byJill Barshay

For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and controversial — urban education reforms. Now…

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New Evidence Highlights Potential Long-Term Costs of Grade Inflation

Authored byJill Barshay

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was.

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Why the Language of Math is Important to Student Learning

Authored byJill Barshay

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with…

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A Summary of the Trump Administration’s Impact on Education Research

Authored byJill Barshay

Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda.