RealClearEducation Week of September 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 8

If We Are Going to Build A.I. Literacy, We Must Measure It

Amit Sevak Hechinger

Energy Drinks Ban Won’t Solve Culture of Overstimulation

Stella O'Malley UnHerd

I Was Wrong about School Prayer

David Marcus Fox News

D.C. Schools Begin a Year without Cell Phones

Eliza Tebo The 51st

How the Trump Admin Is Trying to Reshape K-12 Education

Cory Turner NPR

Public Education Under Threat

James & DeMio Center for American Progress

Why Northwestern Cannot Criticize Qatari Regime

Collin Anderson WFB

Where Do States Stand on College Readiness?

Briana Mendez-Padilla K-12 Dive

Tools to Raise Tech-Healthy Kids

Robert VerBruggen Institute for Family Studies

Jay Bhattacharya: the First Amendment Is Unenforceable

UnHerd

Tuesday, September 9

More College Students Support Shouting Down Opponents

J.D. Tuccille Reason

RFK Jr. Demands Med Schools Beef Up Nutrition Education

Kathryn Palmer IHEd

A.I. Remains Out of Reach for Millions

Erin Mote The Hechinger Report

How A.I. Can Erode Students’ Creativity

Thomas David Moore EdSurge

Welcome More Chinese Students — IF They Love America

Daniel Di Martino NYPost

Lawsuit Saves Massive Reading Experiment

Christopher Peak The Hechinger Report

COVID Worsened Long Decline in Reading, Math Skills

Greg Toppo The74million

Rolling Back Texas Dream Act Affecting 1000s of students

Greta Vasquez NPR

Don't Learn to Code

Kristian Fors Minding The Campus

What It Costs to Be a Sorority Girl

Annie Joy Williams The Atlantic

Wednesday, September 10

America's Student Test Scores Drop

Sequoia Carrillo NPR

Indiana University Ranked Worst for Free Speech

Cate Charron Indystar

Trump Abruptly Ends Blue Ribbon Schools Program

Kalyn Belsha Chalkbeat

A Window into America’s High Schools Slams Shut

Carmela Guaglianone Hechinger

Pay Attention, Kid!

Daniel T. Willingham Education Next

How To Teach With AI Transparency Statements

Jason Gulya Faculty Focus

School Absence a Big Factor in Child Mental Illness

Richard Adams The Guardian

Graduate Job Market Hits Five-Year Low

Jamal Watson Diverse

Diversity Training Is Out. Dialogue Workshops Are In.

Aisha Baiocchi Chronicle

Doom for the Humanities?

Josh Herring James G. Martin Center

Thursday, September 11

Assassination at Utah Valley University Stuns the World

Pitts et al. Deseret News

How the Shooting of Charlie Kirk Unfolded

Carlton et al. Wall Street Journal

The Horrifying Assassination of Charlie Kirk

David A. Graham The Atlantic

What We Lost with Charlie Kirk

Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd

How Charlie Kirk Became the Youth Whisperer of the Right

Robert Draper NYT

Student Dead after Shooting 2 Teens at Colorado High School

Slevin & Brown AP

A New Early Literacy Safety Net

Lipschitz et al. Fordham Institute

Texas Professor Fired for Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’

Patel & Goodman NY Times

University of Chicago’s Self-Made Crisis

Jared Gould Minding The Campus

The Revolt of the Rich Kids

Rob Henderson The Free Press

Friday, September 12

How Charlie Kirk Embodied Campus Conservatism

Ross Douthat New York Times

Oxford Union President Appears to Celebrate Kirk Killing

Craig Simpson Telegraph

Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

Lydia Saad Gallup

‘Vibe-based Literacy’ and Other Fads Harmed Kids

Robert Pondiscio New York Post

New York’s Ban on Cellphones Going ‘Better Than Expected’

Michael Levenson NYT

He Funneled Money to Hamas. Now He's a Professor.

Collin Anderson WFB

From Campus Rhetoric to Assassination

Samuel J. Abrams AEI

3 Chicago Schools Get Expensive STEAM Makeovers

Koumpilova & Richards ProPub

Multiple Historically Black Universities under Lockdown

Negussie et al. ABC News

How To Encourage Difficult Students

Michael Linsin Smart Classroom Management

1 in 3 Students Approve Violence to Stop Campus Speech

Jennifer Kabbany TCF

Too Many College Students

George F. Will Washington Post

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