Jill Barshay | Washington Monthly

Education, Higher Education

Twenty Five Percent of Low-Income Urban High Schools Beat the Odds

by Jill Barshay October 20, 2014January 8, 2022

Education, Higher Education

New Research Suggests Repeating Elementary School Grades – Even Kindergarten – is Harmful

by Jill Barshay October 13, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

Even Education Data Geeks Agree That Education Data is Completely Inscrutable and Inaccessible to Parents

by Jill Barshay October 6, 2014January 8, 2022

Education, Higher Education

What U.S. Schools Can Learn From Poland

by Jill Barshay September 15, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

Lessons from Hawaii: Tracking the Right Data to Fix Absenteeism

by Jill Barshay August 26, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

How Much Did Students Really Gain on Common Core Tests in New York? Data Don’t Say

by Jill Barshay August 18, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

Getting Boys – and Girls- Interested in Computer Coding

by Jill Barshay August 12, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

Reflections on the Underemployment of College Graduates

by Jill Barshay August 4, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

Why a New Jersey School District Decided Giving Laptops to Students is a Terrible Idea

by Jill Barshay July 29, 2014January 9, 2022

Education, Higher Education

US Educators Lead the World in Overestimating Student Poverty, Which May Affect Educational Mobility

by Jill Barshay July 28, 2014January 9, 2022

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