RealClearEducation Week of January 19, 2026 Archives

RealClearEducation AM Update

Monday, January 19

Student Use of AI Is Ubiquitous, Disruptive, Irreversible

Clay Shirky Yale Alumni Mag

Mountains of Evidence on Teen Social Media Harm

Haidt & Rausch After Babel

Stay-at-Home Sons Are Here to Stay

Shane O'Neill Washington Post

As Other Campuses Cut Back, Vanderbilt Is Expanding

Lee Gardner CHEd

More Students Are Going to College

Elissa Nadworny NPR

What Seniors Are Writing about in Their Admissions Essays

Bernard Mokam NYT

New U. of Michigan President’s Pay May Set a Record

Nell Gluckman CHEd

An Epidemic of Academic Fraud

Vince Bielski RealClearInvestigations

UNT Launches Tuition-Free Program for Freshmen

Jessica Priest The Texas Tribune

The Lie That Elite Colleges, and a Nation, Wanted to Believe

Kevin Carey NY Times

Tuesday, January 20

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Slips

Mark Arsenault NYT

Economics Ph.D.s Are Feeling the Slowing Job Market

Justin Lahart WSJ

Yale Profs Donated Overwhelmingly to Dems in 2025

Jaeha Jang Yale Daily News

California Boasts Discriminatory Program Mainly for Latinos

Carl Campanile NYP

Arkansas Rejects Law Dean over Transgender Stance

Stephanie Saul NY Times

Tennessee Student Suspension Violated the First Amendment

FIRE

UW-Green Bay Looks to Older Adults to Boost Enrollment

Miranda Dunlap WW

Teacher Resource: Terri Schiavo & the Debate over End-of-Life Care

Retro Report

I'm a Public School Teacher. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids

Art of Purpose X

Wednesday, January 21

Reading Is a Vice

Adam Kirsch The Atlantic

Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence against Social Media

Jones et al. NY Times

Americans Agree on What Universities Should Focus on

Joseph Klein HxA

Inside the Civil War at an Anti-Woke University

Evan Mandery Politico

University of Austin - A Parent's Reaction to Politico

Brian Freed X

Why Professors Fear the Future

Paul Bloom Chronicle of Higher Education

Free Speech and the Future of the American Experiment

Maggie Miller RCI

The Power of Saying 'I Don't Know'

Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation

Thursday, January 22

College Presidents Can’t Escape Trump

David Jesse Chronicle of Higher Education

A New Look at Charter Schools’ Supposed Weakness

J.T. Young RealClearEducation

Why School Choice Is the Most Honest Ed Reform We Have

Goldy Brown III RCEd

LA’s White Students Sue over Alleged Racial Discrimination

Bianca Heyward NYP

Sarah Lawrence’s Austerity Problem

Samuel J. Abrams American Enterprise Institute

Congress Pushes Back against Trump's NIH Cuts

Peter Sullivan Axios

Moon Landing Hoax in School

Steven Novella Neurologica Blog

You Can’t Make Students Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance

Carrie Robison FIRE

Competition Coming for the SAT, ACT, AP, and IB

Keri D. Ingraham RealClearEducation

Cuts to the Liberal Arts Will Backfire

Jeffrey E. Schulman RealClearEducation

Friday, January 23

Another State Is Tightening Post-Tenure Review

Megan Zahneis CHEd

Partisan Imbalance across Academic Disciplines

Jacob Shell X (formerly Twitter)

Palantir CEO: A.I. 'Will Destroy' This Type of Job

Thomas Barrabi New York Post

Cursive Makes a Comeback

Sarah Maslin Nir New York Times

Growing Up Anti-Intelligent

John Nosta Psychology Today

How Are K–12 School Leaders Managing the Use of A.I.?

Frederick Hess EdNext

Mr. Mayor, Let the Kids Have a Snow Day

Will Rahn The Free Press

Fear of ICE Is Keeping Children from School

Alexandra Villarreal The Guardian

A Guide for Handling Campus Speech Controversies

Emma Whitford IHEd

Mentoring Changed My Life

Z’haria Anderson The74million

Trump's Billion-Dollar ‘Shakedown’ of Higher Ed

Bender et al. New York Times

Graph: The Elimination of Conservatives in Academia

Kevin Bass X (formerly Twitter)

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