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Jill Barshay

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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.

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PROOF POINTS: Nearly 6 out of 10 middle and high school grades are wrong, study finds

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PROOF POINTS: A little parent math talk with kids might really add up, a new body of education research suggests

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PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groups

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PROOF POINTS: Asian American students lose more points in an AI essay grading study — but researchers don’t know why

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PROOF POINTS: Some of the $190 billion in pandemic money for schools actually paid off

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PROOF POINTS: This is your brain. This is your brain on screens

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PROOF POINTS: Teens are looking to AI for information and answers, two surveys show

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PROOF POINTS: As teacher layoffs loom, research evidence mounts that seniority protections hurt kids in poverty

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PROOF POINTS: AI writing feedback ‘better than I thought,’ top researcher says

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PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors

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