Jay Mathews

Jay Mathews (born April 5, 1945, in Long Beach, California) is an author and education columnist with the Washington Post.

Early life

Mathews attended Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California, Occidental College and Harvard College. He is a Vietnam veteran, having served in the US Army.

Career

Mathews has worked at the Washington Post since 1971, writing news reports and books about China, disability rights, the stock market, and education. Mathews won the 1999 Benjamin Fine Award for Outstanding Education Reporting for both features and column writing. 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) for 18 years. He developed the "challenge index" by counting how many individuals take Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests at a school each year, divided by the number of graduating seniors.[1] [2] Top-performing schools are excluded. [3]

Mathews’s book Escalante: The Best Teacher in America traces Jaime Escalante’s career from his native Bolivia to Garfield High School in East Lost Angeles, where he taught advanced mathematics courses to disadvantaged high school students, mostly Latino. Escalante’s story was the subject of the film Stand and Deliver, which starred Edward James Olmos.

Class Struggle: What’s Wrong (and Right) with America's Best Public High Schools, was published in March 1998. It explored elite American public high schools and criticizes the selection process that offers Advanced Placement studies to only the top students. His national ranking system for high schools, the Challenge Index, formerly in Newsweek, runs on the Washington Post website, as the High School Challenge. His other books explore the growth of International Baccalaureate programs, the Ivy League admissions system and the rise of the Knowledge Is Power Program charter schools.

Family

He and his wife, Linda Mathews, former Los Angeles Times Beijing correspondent and assistant foreign editor, New York Times national editor, ABC News producer and USA Today enterprise editor, have three children. His son, Joe Mathews, is an author, journalist and syndicated columnist at Zocalo Public Square, and his daughter-in-law, Anna Wilde Mathews, is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Bibliography
YearTitlePagesPublisherISBN
1985One Billion448BallentineISBN 0345298950
1985China and the U.S.Foreign Policy AssociationISBN 0871240947
1986Sino-American Relations After Normalization: Toward the Second Decade63Foreign Policy AssociationISBN 0871241056
1988Escalante: The Best Teacher in America322Henry Holt & Co.ISBN 0805011951
1992A Mother's Touch: The Tiffany Callo Story265Henry Holt & Co.ISBN 0805017143
1998The Myth of Tiananmen and the Price of a Passive Press12Columbia Journalism Review
1998Class Struggle : What's Wrong (and Right) with America's Best Public High Schools320Times BooksISBN 0812931408
2003Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You304Three Rivers PressISBN 0761536957
2005Supertest: How the International Baccalaureate Can Strengthen Our Schools237Open CourtISBN 0812695771
2009Work Hard. Be Nice.328Algonquin BooksISBN 9781565125162
2012"The War Against Dummy Math"140American Institutes for ResearchISBN 1456340115
2015"Question Everything"266Jossey-BassISBN 9781118438190

References
  1. "Education: How the America’s Most Challenging High Schools list works," The Washington Post April 19, 2015
  2. Jay Matthews, "That’s the Idea: Some schools serving low-income students believe in a challenge" Washington Post April 12, 2016
  3. https://jaymathewschallengeindex.com/public-elites-list/
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