RealClearEducation Week of September 15, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 15
At George Mason, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary
Stephanie Saul NYT
Trump Should Crack Down on Campus 'Safetyism'
Daniel McCarthy Spectator World
This Is What Criticism of the President Cost Me
Paisley Rekdal New York Times
Antisemitic Slurs Disrupt College Zoom about Israel
Sharon Otterman NY Times
The Media and the Annunciation Catholic Church Shooting
Rufo & Thorpe CJ
Student Shot after Mistaken Identity at Naval Academy
Kube & Helsel NBC News
Texas' High Paid, Low Performing Superintendents
Simani & Churchill ProPublica
Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent
Jon Hartley WSJ
Do Classroom Smartphone Bans Really Work?
Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution
1 in 3 Students Approve Violence to Stop Campus Speech
Jennifer Kabbany TCF
Oxford Union President Appears to Celebrate Kirk Killing
Craig Simpson Telegraph


Tuesday, September 16
Six Conservative Students on Charlie Kirk Killing
Allen et al. New York Times
Professor: Why Every University Should Be Mourning
Trevor M. Tomesh Facebook
Flyers Mocking Kirk Assassination Circulate at Colleges
Jennifer Kabbany TCF
Trump's $1.2-Billion Call to Remake UCLA
Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times
Programs for Blind, Deaf Students Harmed by Trump Push
Cohen et al. ProPublica
District Preparing ‘Lockdowns’ in Response to ICE
Kalish & Schulberg HuffPost
Inside a ‘Hell on Earth’ in Oklahoma
Hakim Nostrant & Rios New York Times
The Education Lesson in the Charlie Kirk Murder
Andrew Rotherham Eduwonk
School's Confederate Name Violates Students' Free Speech
Brooke Schultz EdWeek


Wednesday, September 17
Prove Charlie Right
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Charlie Kirk Professor Watchlist Made Some Lives a ‘Living Hell’
Smith et al. CHEd
Campuses Seek a Safe Space for Debate after Kirk Murder
Andrew Jack FT
Words Are Not Violence
Savannah Eccles Johnston Deseret News
'Mass Chaos': How the Aftermath of the Kirk Shooting Unfolded
Jervis et al. USAT
The Newest Face of Unemployment? The College Educated.
Noam Scheiber NYT
At The Columbia Academic Freedom Council Conference
Francis Menton TMC
Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket
Prachee Avasthi Wall Street Journal


Thursday, September 18
Law Schools and the Impoverished View of Free Speech
Bruce P. Frohnen NAS
Why Fascists Hate Critical Thinking
Randi Weingarten Rolling Stone
Wisconsin’s School Scholarship Veto
Editors Wall Street Journal
Schools Must Pay Dearly for Discrimination
Trachman & Genger RealClearEducation
Teachers Union Opponents Leverage Antisemitism Claims
Glenn Sacks RCEd
Texas Tech Student Who Mocked Charlie Kirk Is Jailed
Benjamin Wermund HC
Radical Teachers Cheering Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Jordan Boyd The Federalist
Teachers Distrust Grading Reforms (for Good Reasons)
Daniel Buck RCEducation
Protecting Kids in Foster Care Requires a Bigger Workforce
Sarah Font City Journal
Colleges Are Selling Dreams, Not Reality
James Andrews The James G. Martin Center


Friday, September 19
The Kirk Assassination and the Breakdown of Civil Discourse
Jed Atkins RCEd
All the Sad Young Terminally Online Men
Derek Thompson Substack
The Unexpected Upside of Phone Bans in Schools
Jessica Grose New York Times
Bury the 'Words Are Violence' Cliché
Greg Lukianoff The Free Press
Life at Columbia after the Trump Deal
Francie Diep Chronicle of Higher Education
California Unions Sue Trump over Threats to UC System
Emma Whitford IHEd
Schools Can't Count on Federal Money
Ariel Gilreath The Hechinger Report
Teaching Young Kids How Their Brains Work
Jackie Mader KQED
Florida College to Commission Charlie Kirk Statue
Harrison Jacobs ART News
Teacher Resource: This Treasury Secretary Helped Big Business
Retro Report
Trump Redirects Millions to Historically Black Colleges
Mervosh & Bender NY Times
The Fall of the Last Mainline Seminary
Kayla Bartsch Civitas Institute
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