RealClearEducation Week of October 20, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 20
How Schools Put Kids Last
Neeraja Deshpande City Journal
Parents Think Their Kids Are Getting a Good Education
Nadia Robledo EdSurge
Why Do Students Cheat So Much?
Rob Jenkins Minding The Campus
Inside San Francisco’s New AI school: Is This the Future?
Robin Buller The Guardian
Building an AI-Ready Classroom
Med Kharbach Educators Technology
How To Handle A Student Who Doesn't Do His Work
Michael Linsin SCM
Trump’s College Compact Is a Trap
Jordan Weissmann The Argument
Six States Lead Nation in Anti-DEI Legislative Push
Jamal Watson The EDU Ledger
What Turns Some Scholars Into Frauds?
Andrew King Chronicle of Higher Education
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Idrees Kahloon The Atlantic


Tuesday, October 21
Teaching Roman Elegy through Taylor Swift
David Levene Paideia Institute
The Remarkable Educational Gains of the Reform Era
Michael Petrilli Fordham
When School Boards Act Like the PTA
Robert Pondiscio American Enterprise Institute
UC San Diego Axes Scholarship Challenged Under KKK Act
Aaron Sibarium WFB
Is 'Early Decision' Unfair?
Allen Mendenhall James G. Martin Center
Why Didn’t More College Leaders Condemn Charlie Kirk Murder?
McGuire et al. CJ
The Missing International Students
Karin Fischer Chronicle of Higher Education
How Faith Supports Education
Joel Kotkin UnHerd
Many Barely Literate, Yet Have a High School Diploma
Jessika Harkay The 74 Million
The Destructiveness of Ideological Thinking
Daniel DiSalvo City Journal
The Sweetheart Deal Is Over for Academia
Megan McArdle Washington Post


Wednesday, October 22
Every Child Deserves an AI Tutor
Neil Chilson RealClearEducation
Students Are Asking: Will My Degree Pay Off?
Maria Toyoda RealClearEducation
I Was a College President. Higher Ed Needs Diversity of Beliefs.
Gordon Gee Fox
Faculty at Texas Fear Entire Departments Will Be Slashed
Alice Speri The Guardian
Trump Moves Toward Settlement with First Public University
Bender et al. NYT
Students Struggle with Surprise Costs, Vulnerability
Colleen Flaherty Inside Higher Ed
‘Hate Crime’ School Superintendent Is Indicted for Fraud
Frannie Block Free Press
Why Are More Retirees Going Back to College?
Bahr & O’Hara New York Times
Schools Accommodate Student Anxiety — and Make It Worse
Lovett et al. TC
Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity?
Sophie McBain The Guardian


Thursday, October 23
What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close
Kevin Carey New York Times
Trump Agrees to Student Loan Forgiveness
Lexi Lonas Cochran The Hill
Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for Patriotic Schools
J. Richards ProPublica
University of Maryland Interferes with Turning Point Event
Editors The Daily Wire
The Rot Inside Higher Ed Is Too Deep to Self-Correct
Jay Bergman MTC
Indiana Seeks Federal Waiver for Funding Accountability
Casey Smith ICC
Hawaiian School Sued for 'Blood-Based Discrimination'
Qin & Kunz New York Times
Teacher Resource: Impact of Students’ Deadly Tiananmen Protest
Retro Report
Men Are Far More Tolerant Than Women on Campus
Chapin Lenthall-Cleary Substack
Harvard's Ph.D Bloodbath
Christopher Brunet Substack


Friday, October 24
How Elon University Found the Courage to Talk
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
The NEA Crossed the Antisemitic Rubicon
Garion Frankel RealClearEducation
Accounting for Civics
Barry Melancon Jack Miller Center
Why Colleges Can No Longer Trust the Courts
Peter F. Lake Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Homeschooling Helped Us Raise Influencers with Integrity
Evie Magazine
Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?
Alan Blinder NY Times
College Tuition Is about to Rise Again
Jon Marcus The Hechinger Report
A Darker Side of Ivy League Style
Yola Mzizi New York Times
Research Shows Social-Emotional Learning Can Boost Grades
Cory Turner NPR
Trump Mulling Transfer of Special Ed from US Ed Dept
Shauneen Miranda The 74
Before Trump, There Was the Dartmouth Review
Rich Barlow Politico
How the World Left Steven Pinker Behind
Finn McRedmond New Statesman
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