RealClearEducation Week of February 10, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 10
The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi
Christopher F. Rufo City Journal
Trigger Warnings for Shakespeare
Tom McArdle Telegraph
Trump DEI Crackdown Targets Books in Pentagon Schools
Dan Lamothe WaPo
Give National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public
Jacob Akey First Things
White House Budget Could Shatter National Science Foundation
Eric Berger ArsTc
Don’t Stop at Smartphones. Limit All Tech in the Classroom.
Laura Yuen St-Tribune
Technology Is Still Underutilized in Most Classrooms
MacKenzie Price RCEducation
‘Teacher of the Year’ Admits to Abusing Students
Patrick Reilly New York Post
Opposition to ICE Raids Puts Faculty on the Front Line
Adam Ellwanger CR
RealClear Launches the Journal of the Academy of Public Health
RCScience
Education Power is Returning to the People
Matt Frendewey RealClearEducation


Tuesday, February 11
Texas University to Host Four Nuclear Reactors
Ian Randall Newsweek
Moms Who Seek Unnecessary Medical Care for Children
Naomi S. Riley WSJ
The University Has Always Been Liberal. That’s a Good Thing.
Nir Evron CHEd
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution
Thomas F. Powers Quillette
Tennessee Schools Could Deny Enrollment to Illegal Immigrants
Tom Pappert TS
Judge Strips Immunity from Ohio State for Firing Professor
Greg Piper JTN
Catholic Conference Praises ‘Landmark’ Education Freedom Act
Tom Pappert TS
No Degree, No Problem: High-Paid Skilled Trades
M.J. Koch The New York Sun
The Big American Education Con
Frannie Block The Free Press
Texas Probes Schools Scheming To Get Boys on Girl Sports Teams
Tim Rice DW
Ed Dept Told Employees to End Support for Trans Students
Richards & Cohen ProP
How One State Is Getting Education RIGHT
Karol Markowicz New York Post
TX Demands Districts Ensure No Boys Are Competing in Girls’ Sports
Texas AG
A Kindergarten Teacher in California Breaks Her Silence on DEI
Michelle Bal RCEd
Ed Department Cancels $15 Million in Grants for DEI
Aaron Sibarium WFB
Fixing Education May Take More Than the Stroke of a Pen
Corey Smith LNN
What's Coming For Academia
Francis Menton Manhattan Contrarian
Even Teachers Are Cutting Class
Corey Smith LN GenZ
Trump's Anti-DEI Order Is Both Radical & Rooted in Civil Rights Law
Lee Fang RCI
Biden State Dept Downplayed Use of 'Jihad' in Study Materials
Adam Kredo WFB


Wednesday, February 12
Trump Fires Boards of US Military Academies
Jack Detsch Politico
Combatting Antisemitism on Campus
Tal Fortgang Civitas Institute
Education Ideologues Need to Do Better
Matthew Kuchem The Dispatch
When a Harvard MBA No Longer Guarantees a Job
Dennis McCarthy National Review
School Choice Programs & Testing Mandates
Michael J. Petrilli Fordham Institute
AI-Powered ‘Teacher-less’ Charter Schools Get Mixed Reviews
Charles Creitz FOX
Undergrad Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
Steve Nadis Quanta
Little Evidence for Teaching Facts to Boost Reading
Jill Barshay Hechinger Report
Is Intelligence Really Malleable?
Carl Hendrick & Paul Kirschner Aeon
Wisconsin Bills Call for Transparency in School Referendums
Jon Styf TCS
Nashville Police Deny Covenant Shooter Evidence Claim
Tom Pappert Tenn Star
NYC Mayor Faces Backlash over Allowing ICE into Schools
Chris Wade TCS


Thursday, February 13
Shut Down the Department of Education
Betsy DeVos The Free Press
DOGE Is ‘Gutting’ Key Education Research Efforts
Kalyn Belsha Chalkbeat
Red-State Universities Push Back on NIH Funding Cuts
Perez Jr. & Cancryn Politico
A University’s Top Lawyer Is Behind a Bill to Weaken Tenure
Maya Stahl CHEd
University of Illinois Sued Over Racial Hiring Quotas
Aaron Sibarium WFB
Student Loans Likely Won't Go Away under Trump
deJong & Blake Newsweek
How Administrators & Students Unite to Silence Speakers
Stevens & Lukianoff ERI
Teacher Resource: How Racial Propaganda Was Used in WWII
Retro Report
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Dept Data Arm
Cohen & Richards ProPub
What's Chris Rufo Doing in the Education Department?
Len Gutkin CHEd
How Trump Can Make Universities Great Again
Rufo & Stepman Christopher F. Rufo
59% Favor Removing Funds From Schools That Teach Gender Transition
NNS
Police Silent on Firearms Purchased by Covenant Shooter
Tom Pappert TS
Lead Investigator of School Shooting Resigned
Tom Pappert Tennessee Star
Trump Nominees, COVID Dissenters Launch Science Journal
Greg Piper JTN


Friday, February 14
Trump Vowed to Disrupt Higher Ed. Here's a Bipartisan Way.
Jane Swift RCEd
Cornell Breaks Its Own Election Rules
Anthony A. DelGreco RealClearEducation
High School Grad Has a 3.4 GPA. He Can’t Read His Diploma.
River Page FreePress
Linda McMahon Explains Trump’s Plan for the Ed Dept
Wilkes & Carballo Politico
The Dept of Education: What Does It Actually Do?
Jill Anderson Harvard GSE
Students Struggle to Recover from COVID Learning Loss
April Rubin Axios
Too Many 'A' Grades: Harvard Moves to Restore Academic Rigor
M.J. Koch NY Sun
Idaho's Crumbling Schools
Becca Savransky ProPublica
What to Do about America's Poor Reading and Math Scores
Cory Turner NPR
Some Schools Say They'll Resist Trump’s D.E.I. Orders
Otterman et al. NY Times
At Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’
Aaron Sibarium WFB
LAUSD Allegedly Misused Millions in Taxpayer Money
Howard Blume LA Times
UCLA Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine
Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times
‘We’re Never Going Back to Normal’: Israeli Professor Shai Davidai
Dan Pine TJN
Restoring America with Common Sense
Robert Curry RealClearPolicy
Arizona Universities Received Climate Grants from USAID
Rachel Alexander AST
Police Struggle to Close Covenant School Shooting Case
Kaitlin Housler Tenn Star
Why College Students Have Trouble Reading
John Goyette The Daily Signal
American Employees Aren’t Happy. It Starts in High School.
Fred Ode RCEd
Alphas Have a Chance
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
Churches Should Embrace New Educational Models
Colleen Hroncich RCEd
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