His national ranking system for high schools, the Challenge Index, formerly in Newsweek, runs on the Washington Post’s website as the High School Challenge.
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Mathews’s other books explore the growth of International Baccalaureate programs, the Ivy League admissions system and the rise of the KIPP charter schools.
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Mathews attended Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California, Occidental College and Harvard College.
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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.
Feinberg and Levin’s efforts became the story told by Jay Mathews, in his best-selling book, Work hard.
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