Jill Barshay

Language immersion in a new host-country language leads to better outcomes, OECD says

Online course data show that video lectures are not the best way to learn

Among OECD nations, the U.S. administers fewer standardized tests and even fewer other assessments

Fewer Americans are going to preschool and college compared to other nations

Praise strategies and results, not effort alone, she says

A tiny difference in daily reading habits is associated with giant improvements

Common Core classrooms shift away from what the nation’s report card measures

Gentrification in U.S. cities masks big declines in math

Putting Anders Ericsson’s “deliberative practice” to an online test

Two large studies reach contradictory conclusions on “preschool fadeout”