RealClearEducation Week of April 14, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 14
MIT Must Meet the Moment on Campus Antisemitism
Karchmer & Spitz RCP
Summers’s Critique of Harvard Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Paul O’Reilly National Review
Harvard Faculty Sue to Block Trump Review of $8.7B in Funding
The Guardian
A Flawed Absolution for Smartphones
David Stein After Babel
Social Media's 'Big Tobacco Moment’ Is Coming
Parmy Olson Bloomberg
GOP Probes Ivy League Schools for Alleged Tuition Collusion
Hailey Fuchs Politico
SJP's 'Rage' Isn’t Working
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
Can Trump Really Defund Universities?
Alice Dreger Free the Inquiry
The Push for Greater Oversight of Homeschoolers
Aaron Garth Smith RCEducation
FL Teacher Loses Job for Calling Student Preferred Name
Meckler & Rozsa WaPo
How an Accreditation War Could Start
Robert Shireman Chronicle of Higher Education


Tuesday, April 15
Harvard Rejects Trump's Demands with Funding at Risk
Susan Svrluga WaPo
Our Private Universities Are Not Actualy Private
Eric Weinstein X (formerly Twitter)
These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Cuts
Phillip Levine CHEd
This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
M. Gessen NYT
How to Broaden the Academic Tent
Jenna Silber Storey & Benjamin Storey AEI
How to Deal with the Student Mob
Charles Lipson The Spectator World
Who Are the Biggest Early Beneficiaries of ChatGPT?
Jill Barshay KQED
Teacher Resource: What Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us
Retro Report
Berkeley Official Forced Professors To Set Racial Quotas
Aaron Sibarium WFB


Wednesday, April 16
Harvard President Says University Will Not Comply With Trump
Sarah Brown CHEd
Trump Threatens to Tax Harvard as a Political Entity
Kit Maher CNN
Harvard Pushback May Embolden More Trump Resistance
Robert Tait The Guardian
Obama Praises Harvard after the Trump Pulls Billions
Amanda Friedman Politico
Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?
Paul Tough The New York Times
Civics Is a Prerequisite for Liberal Education
Stephen Matter The Public Discourse
Civic Education Needs to Be a Nationwide Priority
Daniel Stid Education Next
History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool
Suzanne Stillinger The 74
Book Purge at U.S. Naval Academy
Steven Lubet The Hill
Trump Is Right to Rein in the Smithsonian
Jeffrey H. Anderson City Journal
Why Harvard's Endowment Won't Save It from Trump
Mike Deehan Axios


Thursday, April 17
Will Universities Embrace Class-Based Preferences?
Robert VerBruggen City Journal
This Professor Helped Convince Harvard to Stand up to Trump
Kate Linthicum LAT
Divide-and-Conquer Is Trump's Best Strategy Against Harvard
David Kane MTC
Teachers Feel Watched Under Trump's Anti-DEI Push
Fadel et al. KQED
Earn and Learn Apprenticeships Are Key for Young People
Bruno Manno RCEd
When Small Colleges Invest in Sports to Boost Enrollment
Eric Kelderman CHEd
The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
Chris Rufo The Free Press
L.A. Brings Outdoor Classrooms to Life
Enzo Luna The 74
How Harvard Ended Up Leading the Fight Against Trump
Belkin et al. WSJ
School Bias Cases Doubled
James Varney RCI


Friday, April 18
Trump’s Attack Is Ridiculous. But Harvard Needs to Change.
Evan Mandery Politico
Trump Threatens to Block Harvard International Students
Saul et al. NY Times
Timeline: Harvard vs Trump
Greg Collard & James Rushmore Substack
Finally, the Trump Regime Has Met Its Match
Robert Reich The Guardian
Richard Bernstein Warned Us About DEI
Daniel Shuchman City Journal
The Students Who Help Teach Their Peers
Beckie Supiano Chronicle of Higher Ed
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Jon Haidt & Zach Rausch Substack
Canadians Need Universities
Gabriel Miller University Affairs
Rural Schools in Alaska Are Crumbling
Emily Schwing KYUK
Jacksonville Lays off Professors, Cuts Majors
Schiller & Hulon WJXT
What Comes After D.E.I.?
Emma Green The New Yorker
Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime
David Brooks NY Times
Public and Private Learning Models under One Roof? Yes.
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