RealClearEducation Week of February 23, 2026 Archives

For the Teacher, Education is Reciprocal

John J. Coughlin Jack Miller Center

Are 'Civil Discourse' Programs Really Conservative Takeovers?

Pamela Paul WSJ

Professors Sue University over Political Correctness

Baskar & Paterson NY Times

CBS' Bari Weiss Pulls out of UCLA Lecture

Cerys Davies Los Angeles Times

Why ‘Harm’ Can’t Anchor a University’s Mission

John Tomasi Chronicle of Higher Ed

Plato, ‘Gender Ideology,’ and the Rhetorical Fortress

Greg Lukianoff Substack

Bard College President under Review over Epstein Ties

Vimal Patel New York Times

New Hampshire House Bans CRT and LGBT Instruction

Grok

I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A.

Isaac Mansell The Free Press

Higher Ed’s Most Divisive Chancellor

Kate Hidalgo Bellows Chronicle of Higher Education

Two Drinks with a Warrior in the Mommy Wars

Madeleine Kearns The Free Press

The U.S. Wasted $30 billion to Ditch Textbooks

Sasha Rogelberg Fortune

Supervised EdTech Support Produces Massive Learning Gains

Agarwal et al CEPR

What Education Reformers Can Learn from England

Helen Baxendale Education Next

National Ad Campaign Aims to Shift Narrative on Higher Ed

Katherine Knott IHEd

Private College Presidents' Pay up Sharply

Martin & O’Leary Chronicle of Higher Ed

Elsevier's Journal Citation Cartel

Christopher Brunet Substack

Recess Should Be Required in School

Kelly McKenna City & State NY

The College Board Has Politicized Its AP Exams

Michael Torres James Martin Center

How Epstein Used an Elite Midwest Arts School to Prey on Girls

Ava Berger NPR

The Daily Online Abuse That Confronts a Teen Girl Like Me

Anonymous Guardian

AI, Cheating, and the Illusion of Learning

Dan Sarofian-Butin RealClearEducation

Homeschooling Families Deserve Special Tax Credits

Sarah Wilder RCEd

Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone

Larissa Phillips The Free Press

Doctors Trusted Belief over Science on Youth Gender Care

Jesse Singal NY Times

Campus Cancellations at UCLA, University of North Texas

Nicole Simovski HxA

Jeffrey Epstein’s Academic Fixer

Evan Goldstein Chronicle of Higher Education

What If the Story We’re Telling about College Is Wrong?

Matthew Jenkins Lumina

Warnings amid Dual Enrollment’s Growing Popularity

Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Wa Po

A Cautionary Tale as Head Start Turns 60

Madison Doan RealClearEducation

Ed Department Hands off More Responsibilities to Other Agencies

Annie Ma AP

Larry Summers Will Resign from Harvard

Gregory Svirnovskiy Politico

NYC Prof Caught Making ‘Abhorrent Remarks' about Blacks

Erica Byfield NBC

How a Father’s Presence Shapes Child’s Health

Seth Eisenberg Fatherhood Channel

How Dropping out of College Can Save Your Life

Ryan Holiday X

Does Social Justice Control the Humanities?

Len Gutkin Chronicle of Higher Education

Against the 3-Year Degree

Martin Hackworth Substack

Special Education Keeps Growing. Here's Why.

Kara Arundel K-12 Dive

College Profs Are So Liberal Students Have to Pretend to Be

Rikki Schlott NY Post

Florida Teachers Unions Have Lost Their Way

Kamoutsas & Withe RealClearEducation

Trump’s Higher Education Legacy — Whether He Meant It or Not

Beth Akers RCEd

Trump's DOJ Sues over Alleged Antisemitism at UCLA

Eric He Politico

What Happens if You Take Away the Principal’s Phone?

Joshua Andrew RCEd

The Dubious Science Behind Cell Phone Bans

Christopher J. Ferguson RealClearInvstg

A Blow to the Phone-Free Classroom

Kircher & Holtermann New York Times

The Plot to Replace Teachers with Tech

John Allen Wooden UnHerd

FBI Raids Los Angeles Superintendent’s Home

Dani Anguiano The Guardian

Texas: College-Prep Classes Set Students up for Failure

Joanne Jacobs

Chicago’s Selective Enrollment and Public High Schools

Renu Mukherjee Man Inst

Columbia Student Detained by ICE Released after Mamdani-Trump Meeting

AP

Martini in Student's Lunch Box: 'That is NOT Apple Juice'

David K. Li NBC News

The Dirtiest Secret in Higher Education

Hollis Robbins Anecdotal Value

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