Jay Mathews is an author and education columnist with the ''
Washington Post
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''.
Career
Mathews has worked at the ''Washington Post'' writing news reports and books about China, disability rights, the stock market, and education. He writes the ''Class Struggle'' blog for the ''Washington Post''.
He has prepared the annual ranking of "America’s Most Challenging High Schools" for the ''Washington Post'' (and previously for ''
Newsweek
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'') for 18 years. He developed the "challenge index" by counting how many individuals take
Advanced Placement,
International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB ...
, and
Advanced International Certificate of Education tests at a school each year, divided by the number of graduating seniors.
Top-performing schools are excluded.
He previously held Bureau Chief posts at locations including Beijing, as its first Bureau Chief in 1979-1980, and Los Angeles. He spent several weeks back in Beijing in 1989 to cover the Tiananmen protests at the time, and has since challenged the dominant media narrative of a student massacre inside Tiananmen Square, reporting that bloody scenes only took place outside the Square, and not only involving students.
[Jay Mathews, "The Myth of Tiananmen, And the Price of a Passive Press.]
''Columbia Journalism Review'' Sept/Oct 1998
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External links
Waiting For Superman Debate
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American columnists
1945 births
Living people