RealClearEducation Week of August 25, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 25
Meet the Students Resisting the Dark Side of AI
Daniel Mollenkamp EdSurge
Art Should Trigger You
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
The Billionaires Backing Woke Math amid DEI Rollback
Lee Fang RCInvestigations
Education Department to Restore Civil Rights Staff
Walter Hudson Diverse
How America’s Top Tribal Arts College Silenced a Student
William Harris Substack
Free Cash to Poor Families Isn’t Helping Kids
Naomi Schaefer Riley The Boston Globe
School Districts Reverting from Electric Buses to Diesel
Thomas Catenacci WFB
What Parents Miss About the Phones-in-Schools Debate
Gail Cornwall The Atlantic
Bait and Switch at the Academy
Martin Hackworth Substack
Josh Shapiro’s Quiet Campaign of Influence at Penn
Ben Binday CHEd
A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them
Schuessler & Patel NY Times


Tuesday, August 26
The Science of Reading in Early Childhood
Barbara Hammond The 74
Tutoring Was Supposed to Save COVID Kids
Jill Barshay The Hechinger Report
UC Marks Red Lines As It Moves to Negotiate $1-Billion Fine
Jaweed Kaleem LAT
Katrina at 20: New Orleans Schools Still 'a Work in Progress'
Aubri Juhasz NPR
How Katrina Saved New Orleans Schools
Ian Birrell UnHerd
Diversity Efforts at George Mason Were Discriminatory
Jasper Smith CHEd
Want to Fix Our Broken Higher-ed System? Look South.
Zachary Marschall NY Post
When Immigration Shows up at Daycare
Kira Lerner The Guardian
There’s Too Much Doom and Gloom in the Classroom
Robert Pondiscio NR
Soviet Kindergarten
Eugene Vodolazkin Plough


Wednesday, August 27
Dem Governors Should Accept Trump’s School Funding
Michelle Dimino WaPo
DEI Was the Compromise, Not the Solution
Marcela Rodriguez-Campo Diverse
Why Chronic Absenteeism May Be Here to Stay
Jill Barshay Los Angeles Times
The Limit on Classical Education’s Growth
Pondiscio & Hernandez Fordham Institute
MIT President Is a Magnet for Research Fraud
Paul Thacker DisInformation Chronicle
A Culture of Conversation
Wilfred M. McClay Law & Liberty
Active Parents Boost Children’s Out-of-School Physical Activity
Scienmag
Anti-Trump Geopolitics from a Naval College Professor
Francis Sempa RCDefense
America's People Shortage Is about to Get Real for Colleges
Kelli Korducki B Insider


Thursday, August 28
What Should Civics Instruction Look Like?
Rick Hess Education Week
Trump’s Forcing Schools to Hire 'Title VI Coordinators'
Teresa Manning MTC
Columbia Law Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms
Aaron Sibarium WFB
Beverly Hills Public Schools Will Display Israeli Flag
Clara Harter Los Angeles Times
Conservatives' Civics Revolution
John Murawski RealClearInvestigations
New FBI Stats Show Teachers Overcome Myriad Challenges
Glenn Sacks RCEd
The 10 Public Colleges with the Best ROI in the U.S.
Kamaron McNair CNBC
Harvard Took Down My Lab's Solidarity Message
Bence Ölveczky Harvard Crimson
Why Intensive Charter Schools Deserve Our Attention
White et al. Education Next


Friday, August 29
When Evidence Is Branded as Hate
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
The Roots of STEM Excellence
Charles Murray Wall Street Journal
China’s Elite Students Are Gaming the System
Derek Levine RealClearEducation
The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think
Blinder & Rich New York Times
Quit Making a Big Deal about 'Back to School' Jitters
Samantha Boardman Let Grow
No, Teachers Shouldn’t Decrease Referrals to CPS
Putnam-Hornstein & Riley EdWeek
Trump Calls for $500 Million Harvard Settlement
Betsy Klein CNN
Financial Unpredictability Looms in Higher-Ed
Dan Bauman CHEd
Richmond Scholarships Facing Civil Rights Complaint
Shantel Davis WWBT
They Spent Thousands on Luxury Writers Retreats
Richard Z. Santos Slate
The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis
Clay Shirky New York Times
The Universities and the American Crisis
Ben Sasse Mosaic
A.I. is Killing the Internet. Don’t Let It Kill the Classroom Too.
Craig Booth RCEd
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