Jill Barshay
Jill Barshay is a staff writer and editor who writes the weekly 鈥淧roof Points鈥� column about education research and data. She taught algebra to ninth graders for the 2013-14 school year. In school, English was Jill鈥檚 worst subject; she now thanks all the teachers who covered her papers in red ink. Previously, Jill 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. A graduate of Brown University, Jill holds master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Columbia University鈥檚 Graduate School of Journalism. She was a 2016-17 Spencer Fellow in Education Journalism.
