RealClearEducation Week of December 22, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 22

How Epstein Used The Ivy League To Launder His Reputation

Emily Kopp DC

Conservatives Should Defend, Not Censor, Free Speech

Rikki Schlott New York Post

Elon Musk’s Child Care Program Falters

Kirsten Grind & Sheera Frenkel New York Times

Happens When You Send a Girl to School

Editors New York Times

Using AI Before It Uses Us

Jonathan N. Badger Substack

How to Actually Learn Something in an Undergrad Course

Andrej Karpathy Stanford

Democracy in the Operating Room

Ronald W. Dworkin Jack Miller Center

When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus

Stephanie M. Lee Chronicle of Higher Education

How Johns Hopkins Racial Makeup Changed after Court Ruling

Karl Hille Balt. Sun

Tuesday, December 23

How to Get More Smart Poor Kids into College

Griffith & Chung RealClearEducation

Rebuild the College-to-Work Pipeline

Kemi Jona & Dana Stephenson RealClearEducation

Wednesday, December 24

Data Show Few Republicans on Elite University Faculty

Chamath Palihapitiya X

Helping Students Flourish, Not Just Achieve

Robert Pondiscio Fordham Institute

Trans Instructor Fired for Flunking Essay on Gender

Caitlin McCormack NY Post

Prof Suspended after Refusing Lenient Grades for Black Students

J Kabbany TCF

Faculty Are Leaving Austin's Anti-Woke University

Gwen Howerton Houston Chronicle

Friday, December 26

The National Movement to Trim Higher Ed Bloat

Christian Barnard RealClearEducation

Due to AI, These Stanford Grads Can't Find a Job

Nilesh Christopher LA Times

In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Escalate Duel

Blinder et al. New York Times

Trump Admin Probes Brown U over Deadly Shooting

Bianca Quilantan Politico

27 Yale Departments Have No Republican Faculty

Rachel del Guidice New York Post

The Campus 'Vibe Shift' Is an Illusion

Samuel J. Abrams Washington Examiner

What Happened When My Yale Students Gave up Their Phones

Colleen Kinder NYT

With Washington Stepping Back, States Must Step Up

Jane Swift RealClearEd

Why Are States Reining in the 'Gold Standard' in Autism Care?

Bram Smith NPR

Clemson U.’s Backlash Over Employees’ Charlie Kirk Posts

Sonel Cutler CHEd

When 'Kinship Care' Means Anyone

Naomi Schaefer Riley City Journal

America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.

David DesRosiers RCP

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