RealClearEducation Week of August 11, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 11
How the Economic Case for Foreign Students Lost Steam
Karin Fischer CHEd
Florida U's Face Overhaul Courtesy of Trump & DeSantis
Andrew Atterbury Politico
Trump Wants UCLA to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Funding
Blinder & Bender NY Times
In Praise of Idleness
Keith Whitaker Minding The Campus
Education Department Lands a Tremendous Asset
Preston Cooper AEI
School Staff Arranged Students’ Abortions without Consent
Landon Mion NY Post
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
The Humanities Should Be Harder
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring


Tuesday, August 12
Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello ‘F—Around and Find Out’
Ellen Gamerman WSJ
Massachusetts Teachers Demand New Wealth Tax
Jonathan Turley
Goodbye, Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
Natasha Singer NYT
Newsom Blasts Trump’s $1 Billion UCLA Settlement
Juliann Ventura Politico
Sex, Denials: Georgia Baptist College Faces a Reckoning
Moore & Gross AJC
Trump Hunts for ‘Bogeyman’ in Admissions Data
Eric Hoover Chronicle
Welsh Universities Are Ailing
Huw Williams UnHerd
CPS Investigated Because She Let Her Kids Play Outside
Lenore Skenazy Reason
Colleges Give Low-Income Students Less of a Boost
Danielle McLean Higher Ed Dive


Wednesday, August 13
Local Agencies Release Uvalde Shooting Records
Kriel Nguyen & Cobler Texas Trib
Illinois’ Disastrous School Mental-Health Program
Carolyn D. Gorman City Journal
The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight against Universities
Michael Bender NY Times
What I Learned about Special Ed after Getting It Wrong
April Jackson EdSurge
Trump Threatens Harvard Patents Worth Hundreds of Millions
Juan Perez Politico
The College That’s Thriving Under Trump
David Jesse Chronicle of Higher Education
Veterans Say VA Cuts Are Derailing Their Educations
Matt Krupnick Hechinger
Philanthropy’s Response to Our Education Crisis
Kassadee Lym RealClearEducation
Are We Giving Our Kids Calloused Hearts?
Ron Scutt RealClearEducation
How the ‘Social Sciences’ Killed Our Universities
Liah Greenfeld NAS


Thursday, August 14
Fraudulent Cancer Research, a Test for Future MIT President
Mike Damiano Globe
A State Revamped High School for the Non-College Bound
Kavitha Cardoza HR
NYC Changes How Reading Is Taught, & Test Scores Rise
Troy Closson NY Times
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives & Enrich Insiders
Churchill & Simani ProPublica
States Pay a High Cost for Federal Money
Tony Woodlief Wall Street Journal
The Justice Department’s Welcome Crackdown on Universities
John Sailer CJ
The Disastrous Fall of the Medical University
Thelin & Hutchens Chronicle of Higher Ed
The School Principal’s Prayer
Brandon McNeice Plough
Stop Asking Kids If They’re Depressed
Abigail Shrier The Free Press
Why Some Parents Are Rethinking Saving for College
Kailyn Rhone New York Times


Friday, August 15
Here's What I'm Committing to for My Male Students
Samuel J. Abrams RCEd
A Better Way to Use Education Tax Credits
Ariel Taylor-Smith RealClearEducation
UChicago Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Humanities Programs
Ryan Quinn IHEd
They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose
Eric Adler Chronicle of Higher Education
Beware of Grad Programs Masquerading as 'Professional'
Preston Cooper AEI
‘The New York Times’ Goes Full Karen on Mark Zuckerberg
Robby Soave Reason
Zohran Mamdani’s War on Charter Schools
Daniel Idfresne RealClearEducation
Judge Strikes Down Trump Guidance against DEI Programs at Schools
NPR
Fears of ICE Raids Cloud LAUSD’s First Day of School
Blume et al. Los Angeles Times
Higher Education in the UK is a Mess
Simon Jenkins The Guardian
Sniffing Out Bogus Science
Vince Bielski RealClearInvestigations
Against Lived Experience
Christopher Nadon University of Austin
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