RealClearEducation Week of January 26, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 26

Texas to Require Bible, other Classic Books

Kanik & Yu Houston Chronicle

What Is History's Role in Civic Education?

Benjamin P. Haines Civitas Institute

A Consensus on Accountability for Workforce Pell

Emily Rounds Third Way

What Ed Leaders Can Learn from the AI Gold Rush

Mohan Sivaloganathan The 74

Academic Freedom Suffers Blow after Blow in Florida

Garrett Gravley FIRE

School Reading Overhauls Leave Older Students Behind

Lauren Coffey EdSurge

Teacher Resource: Fighting Drought by Harvesting the Rain

Retro Report

Growing Up Anti-Intelligent

John Nosta Psychology Today

Another State Is Tightening Post-Tenure Review

Megan Zahneis CHEd

Tuesday, January 27

GOP Pitches Loan Repayment as Americans Struggle

Mackenzie Wilkes Politico

Can Tenure Endure?

B. M. Ryan Minding The Campus

Illiberalism in Education is a Left-Right Problem

Frederick Hess Education Next

Young, Employed — and Unhappy?

Jill Barshay KQED

Most Texas Districts Said No to Bible Lessons

Linda Jacobson The 74 Million

I Taught The Kids Every Other School Rejected

Sally Iverson HuffPost

Some Advice for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Bruce Fuller Hechinger

What Age Should Kids Legally Be Allowed to Play Outside?

Staff Let Grow

Higher Ed’s Secret Provost Club

Kate Hidalgo Bellows Chronicle of Higher Education

Wednesday, January 28

What Is College for in the Age of A.I.?

Jeffrey Selingo Intelligencer

Race-Conscious Admissions May Not Be Totally Dead

Eric Hoover CHEd

Congress Moves to Reject Trump's Ed Dept Plan

Laura Spitalniak Higher Ed Dive

Parents Don't Want Protests in Classrooms

Chip Rogers American Thinker

Yale Offers New Free Tuition Plan

Stephanie Saul New York Times

Harvard Faculty Cut A Grades by Nearly 7%

Gerstein & Mahajan Harvard Crimson

Free Speech Isn’t Free and It Cost Charlie Kirk Everything

Kristan Hawkins RCP

GWU Pauses Admissions to 5 Ph.D. Programs

Johanna Alonso Inside Higher Ed

Harvard Is Too Old

Alex Bronzini-Vender Harvard Crimson

Thursday, January 29

Why Governors Are Opting-In to School Choice

Keri Ingraham The Daily Wire

Ed Dept Finds San Jose State Violated Title IX with Trans Player

Steve Henson LA

5 Big Questions to Understand State of Student Loans

Meredith Kolodner Hechinger

A Philanthropic Path to Educational Freedom

Neeraja Deshpande RealClearEducation

As L.A. Reading Scores Rise, Déjà Vu — and a Warning

Linda Jacobson The 74

Teacher Resource: How Students Shaped the Panama Canal Fight

Retro Report

Profs Double Down on Requiring Printed Readings

Jolynda Wang Yale Daily News

Is a Four-Year Degree Worth It?

Sian Leah Beilock Wall Street Journal

Reading to Your Kids Can Be Far More Than a Routine

Rachel Lu Education Next

Friday, January 30

School Choice: Beyond Left and Right

Jeanne Allen RealClearEducation

The 'Ban' on Plato at Texas A&M Was a Set Up

John Kainer RealClearEducation

Is Columbia’s New President Up to the Task?

Nell Gluckman Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age

Claire Cain Miller New York Times

Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT

Stephanie Saul New York Times

Palestine Protestor Lawyers Deliver Closing Statements

Frenchie Pinney Stanford

Schools Move to Remote Learning over 'Super' Virus

Emily Joshu Sterne Daily Mail

A Kids' Guide to Phone-Free Fun

Tahneer Oksman NPR

Teacher Goes Analog to keep A.I. out of Her Classroom

Lee V. Gaines NPR

The Program That’s Turning Schools Around

Annie Lowrey The Atlantic

This School Choice Week Is a Consequential Moment

Norton Rainey RealClearEd

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