- Jay Mathews
- Columnist
Jay Mathews is an education columnist and blogger for the Washington Post, his employer for 40 years. He is the author of seven books, including three about high schools and his most recent, a New York Times bestseller, about the birth and growth of the KIPP charter school network. He created the annual Challenge Index rankings of high schools (formerly in newsweek.com, now at washingtonpost.com). He has won several awards for education writing and was given the Upton Sinclair award as “a beacon of light in the realm of education.” He has won the Eugene Meyer Award for distinguished service to The Washington Post.
Do the math: Too much calculus?
Every high school wants to have a calculus class. Math teaching experts say this has produced too many weak classes that leave students unprepared for college math.
Being a minority at most selective U.S. high school
Former Thomas Jefferson High School student body president Anita Kinney describes being a minority at the famous high school, now accused of being discriminatory.
Flawed probe of D.C. test cheating
I hoped the Inspector General’s report on cheating on D.C. tests would be thorough and independent. It failed egregiously on both counts.
D.C. cheating report thin, biased
The IG report is thin, biased and does little to solve the erasure mystery.
- Let principals, not tests, rate teachers
- Removing tests from D.C. teacher ratings
- Inspector General clears D.C. schools of widespread cheating
- Jay Mathews: Let Fairfax teachers be creative
- Let charters bloom. Let teachers be creative.
- Junking old way of teaching writing
- Large study says great teachers get little respect
- What it means when test scores plummet
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