RealClearEducation Week of March 24, 2025 Archives

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Monday, March 24
Columbia Submits to Trump’s Demands
Novi Zhukovsky The New York Sun
Columbia Should Have Told Trump, ‘See You in Court'
Margaret Sullivan Guardian
What to Know about Trump’s Effort to Dismantle the Dept of Ed
Luhby et al. CNN
This Ivy Hired a Trump Ally as its Top Lawyer
Ward & Sentner Politico
How the GOP Started Fighting Campus Free Speech
Jeremy W. Peters NY Times
Funding with Strings Attached Risks Academic Freedom
Keith Whittington Dispatch
University Mischief-Makers
Mark G. Brennan National Association of Scholars
How Texas Conservatives Influence What Students Learn
Schwartz et al. ProPublica
In Oklahoma, a Fight of Biblical Proportions
Mark Silk RNS
Trump Delivers on Reagan’s Promise To Dismantle Ed Dept
Philip Wegmann RCP


Tuesday, March 25
Use of New ‘AI Tutor’ Rockets Student Test Scores to Top 2%
Nikolas Lanum Fox
The Damage Wrought by EdTech
Jon Haidt & Zach Rausch After Babel
Children Glued to Phones More Likely to Become Depressed
Steve Fink Study Finds
Deported Brown University Professor’s Hezbollah Ties
Emanuele Ottolenghi LWJ
Gender Gaps in Certain STEM Majors Are Widening
Lilah Burke Higher Ed Dive
The Reality Show Presidency Comes to the Ed Dept
Andrew Rotherham Eduwonk
Education Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration
Walter Hudson Diverse
Women Historians Conference Canceled
Ryan Quinn Inside Higher Ed
Princeton’s DEI Structure amid Trump Trashing DEI
Stuart Taylor Jr. RealClearPolitics
Tax the Ivies
Henry Olsen National Review


Wednesday, March 26
Upheaval at Ed Dept Decimates English Learners Services
Kalyn Belsha Chalkbeat
Spring Break in FL: ‘Cocaine, Weed, Molly – Everywhere’
Jeanette Settembre NYPost
When Students Are School Tech Support
Marlena Jackson-Retondo KQED
Columbia’s President Faces Angry Faculty
Belkin & Whyte Wall Street Journal
Student Sought by ICE Sues Trump over Deportation Efforts
Lydia O'Connor HuffPo
The Full Measure of a School
Erik W. Robelen Education Next
The Inexplicable Budget Cuts at My University
Audrey Berlowitz Academe
Students Use AI for Scholarship Essays — with Little Luck
Olivia Sanchez Hechinger
Canada Doubles Down on DEI
Geoff Horsman & David Millard Haskell Minding The Campus
Abandoning DEI Won’t Fix Academia’s Left-Leaning Problem
Megan McArdle WaPo
How Tinker v. Des Moines Established Students’ Free Speech Rights
Retro Report
I Know Why Autism Diagnosis Rates Are Rising
Holden Thorp The New York Times
Academia Confronts a Watershed Moment at Columbia
Closson et al. NY Times
Giving Schools More Control over Social Media
Richard Culatta EdSurge
Another State Passes a School Cellphone Ban
T. Keung Hui The Charlotte Observer
Brown U. Student Channels DOGE
Emma Pettit Chronicle of Higher Education


Thursday, March 27
Ideas Over Identity
Justin P. McBrayer RealClearEducation
Why Legal Education Needs Abraham Lincoln
Michael Lucchese Civitas Institute
‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’ Decimation of Ed Data
Katherine Mangan Chronicle
Maybe We Should Stop Calling Them Schools
Erika Sanzi RealClearEducation
Spring Cleaning at Harvard
Michael S. Kochin Chronicles
A New Class of Ivy League Social Media Influencers
Andrew Zucker Town & Country
I Need an Egg Donor. Can I Ask a Former Student?
Kwame Anthony Appiah NY Times
Why Censorship Is Making Us All Dumber
Julian Adorney Substack
Cornell Student’s Visa Revoked by the State Department
Gloria Pazmino CNN


Friday, March 28
By the Time Trump Comes for Your University, It’s Too Late
Healy et al. NY Times
Harvard Cuts Ties With Hamas-Friendly Birzeit University
Kassy Akiva Daily Wire
Tufts Grad Student Taken into ICE Custody
Tori Bedford & Sarah Betancourt WGBH
Higher Ed Associations Are Leading Trump Resistence
Megan Zahneis CHEd
University Audit Finds $45 Million in Reporting Errors
Kyle Ingram Charlotte Observer
AI Skeptic Creates Chatbot to Help Teachers Design Courses
Greg Toppo The 74
The Judeo-Christian Nation
Jack Miller & Pete Peterson Providence Magazine
Virginia Pushes Accelerated Math Enrollment
Todd Truitt RealClearEducation
How To Actually Apply 'High Expectations'
Michael Linsin SCM
VMI Is at War: Defiant Leadership vs. National Authority
Various RealClearDefense
Yale Professor Who Studies Fascism Flees to Canada
Rachel Leingang The Guardian
K-12 Is Getting More Woke, Not Less
David Bernstein RealClearEducation
Monday, March 31
McMahon Threatens Newsom Over Transgender Athletes
Susan Crabtree RCP
Exporting the Columbia Prototype
Christopher F. Rufo City Journal
Columbia Locked Its Campus and Unleashed a Debate
Kodé & Moran NY Times
Columbia President Steps Down after Sweeping Changes
Emma Tucker CNN
Trump’s War on Higher Ed Will Be Waged Beyond Elite U's
M.J. Koch NY Sun
America's Librarians Became Militantly Political
Mark Hemingway The Federalist
Trump Funding Cuts Could Lead to Overworked Faculty
Adrienne Lu CHEd
Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
Nicholas Confessore NY Times
Harvard Medical Researcher Detained by ICE
Lenthang & Comeau NBC News
Is AI Good for Science?
Noah Carl Aporia
Teacher Arrested for Using Student as ‘Stepping Stool'
Emily Crane New York Post
Teacher Resource: How Black Women Fought for the Right to Vote
Retro Report
A Rural Town's Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Ed
Molly Parker ProPublica
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