RealClearEducation Week of August 4, 2025 Archives

Ignore the 'Expert' Advice to Delay Teaching Reading

Erik Hoel X (formerly Twitter)

Can Academic Freedom Survive the Surveillance State?

Charlie Tyson CHEd

A 'Capitalist Tool' Speaks Up for Academic Freedom

Hank Reichman Academe

Will Free Expression Make a Comeback at Haverford?

William Harris Substack

UMich Accepted $270M in Foreign Funds. Feds Launch Probe.

Emily Sturge CR

Trump Bring Back Presidential Fitness Test in Schools

Rachel Leingang Guardian

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis

Emily Schwing ProPublica

Devil’s Den Killer Is a Teacher Who Was Accused of Misconduct

Taer et al. NY Post

Texas Holds the Keys to Higher Ed Reform

Sherry Sylvester RealClearEducation

It’s Open Season on University Presidents

Charles Mitchell & Dawn Toguchi RealClearEd

A.I.-Driven Education Coming to a School Near You

Pooja Salhotra New York Times

The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

Jessica Grose New York Times

Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review

Matt Taibbi Racket News

Brown University Takes Out $500M Loan After Funding Freeze

Katherine Knott IHE

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on COVID, Autism

Matthew Rozsa Reason

A Summer Camp Where Professors Are the Focus

Beth McMurtrie CHEd

CSU, Northridge Doubles Down on Racial Discrimination

Wenyuan Wu MTC

Teacher Resource: When Free Willy Launched a Movement

Retro Report

Historian Cancels Course at Columbia over Trump Deal

Dani Anguiano The Guardian

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

Kevin Hartnett Quanta Magazine

The Shift to Science of Reading & ‘Balanced Literacy Rehab’

Kristen McQuillan 74

Public Schools Try to Sell Themselves as Vouchers Expand

Dana Goldstein NYT

The Mistake Parents Make With Chores

Christine Carrig The Atlantic

UCLA Will Negotiate with Trump

Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times

How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism

Catherine D'Ignazio Academe

Can Western New Mexico Univ. Recover a Golden Parachute?

Josh Moody IHEd

Behind Penny Schwinn’s Withdrawal as Deputy Ed Secretary

Frederick Hess EdNext

ChatGPT Study Mode: a Teachers’ Guide

Med Kharbach Educators Technology

Female Teachers Much More Stressed Than Male Colleagues

Amanda Geduld 74

Chronic Absenteeism, a New Normal for American Schools

Jill Barshay Hechinger

Why the White House Backed Down from Big Ed Cuts

Toluse Olorunnipa The Atlantic

1st We Gave AI Our Tasks, Now We’re Giving It Our Hearts

Mandy McLean Substack

On TikTok, South Dakota Interns Preserve Lakota Language

Lauren Wagner The 74

New School Year, New Antisemitism

Alexander Joffe Algemeiner

Researchers Say Very Few Professors are Anti-Israel

Samuel Abrams Jewish Journal

The Scholar Who Saw Zohran Mamdani Coming

Daniel Shuchman Wall Street Journal

The New Back to School Phenomenon

Jeanne Allen Substack

Behind the Charter Sector’s Big Court Win in Los Angeles

Ben Chapman The 74

Public Schools Closing as Arizona Voucher Program Soars

Laura Meckler WaPo

What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown

Samuel Abrams RCEd

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: What New Orleans Teaches Us

Bruno Manno RC

What Kids Told Us about How to Get Them Off Their Phones

Haidt et al The Atlantic

The Humanities Should Be Harder

Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring

On the Politics of University Autonomy

Keith E. Whittington Reason

Families Need to Know What They’re Choosing

Griffith & Coffey Fordham Institute

‘Hook Up?’ College Kids Schedule Everything on Google

Haley Zimmerman WSJ

Stanford Student Newspaper Sues Trump Administration

Devan Cole CNN

San Francisco Board Votes to Buy Ethnic-Studies Curriculum

Aaron Bandler JNS

Ed Department Has a Backlog of 27,000 Complaints

Tyler Kingkade NBC News

Manhattan Institute and Heterodox Academy Are Arguing

Emma Pettit CHEd

The Closing of the Zoomer Mind

Valerie Stivers UnHerd

RealClearEducation Week of August 4, 2025 Archives

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