RealClearEducation Week of February 9, 2026 Archives

Fight Higher Ed Indoctrination without Censorship

Piereson & Riley Examiner

How Higher Ed Staved off a Funding Bloodbath

Stephanie M. Lee CHEd

Easy A’s, Lower Pay: Grade Inflation’s Hidden Damage

Jill Barshay KQED

As Strike Looms, More Spending Won't Fix L.A. Schools

Williamson Evers NY Post

Faculty Rebuke Colorado State’s Internal Chancellor Search

Emma Whitford IHEd

Charter Schools and HBCUs Join Forces

Paul E. Peterson Education Next

Funding Cuts Could Put College Further out of Reach

Jon Marcus Hechinger Report

UNL Terminates 50 Faculty & Staff amid Budgets Cuts

Megan Rosevear College Fix

What It Means to Be 'Ready' for Kindergarten in California

Sequeira et all. LA Times

Test Results Reveal a Deeper Issue in Math

L. Burleigh The 74 Million

The End of College Racial Quotas Is Making America More Just

Editors NY Post

Elite College Diversity Plummets

Alyssa Brown EDU Ledger

A Dangerous Bet

Jared Gould Minding The Campus

San Fran Teachers Walk out for the First Time Since 1979

Hubler et al. NY Times

Higher Education’s Compensation Charade

Kevin R. McClure Chronicle of Higher Ed

Ed Department Paid Laid-off OCR Staff $38M

Naaz Modan Higher Ed Dive

College Students Can’t Put Their Phones Down—Even During Sex

Ashley Fike VICE

Why Children Need Spiritual Education

Kat Eghdamian The Guardian

Diversity Hiring Faces a Reckoning

Emma Pettit Chronicle of Higher Education

Guidelines for Libraries Take 'Chilling' Turn under Trump

Jaimie Seaton ProPublica

Harvard Limiting the Number of A Grades Is a Good Thing

Rikki Schlott NY Post

Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Aren't Repaying Their Loans

Cory Turner NPR

Progress on Chronic Absenteeism Has Slowed

Linda Jacobson The 74 Million

Stanford Deemed a ‘Hostile Campus’ for Muslims

Sterling Davies The Stanford Daily

2 Colleges, 2 Different Responses to the Heckler’s Veto

Samuel J. Abrams RCEd

Why Limiting A Grades Is a Bad Idea

Chiocco & Farrell Harvard Crimson

Foreign Students Displacing America's Top Students

Steve Cortes RealClearPolitics

Family Structure Matters More Than Anything We Debate

Goldy Brown III RCEd

The World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids

Jonathan Haidt The Free Press

Elite Colleges Need More Vets in Their Ranks

Novi Zhukovsky Wall Street Journal

Remote LSAT Ending Due to Cheating Concerns

Emma Whitford Inside Higher Ed

Stanford Dating Experiment Has Taken over Campus

Jasmine Li Wall Street Journal

Grade Inflation Is Concealing Poor Student Performance

Jessica Poiner RCEd

The Autism Epidemic Is a Myth

Adam Omary Washington Post

The End of Affirmative Action: Four Takeaways

Kolodner & Villeneuve Hechinger

U.S. Colleges Received $5 Billion in Foreign Gifts in 2025

Elissa Nadworny NPR

Higher Ed’s Bullying Problem

Adrienne Lu Chronicle of Higher Education

Majors Are Dumb

Rachel Toor & E. Gordon Gee Inside Higher Ed

The Billion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities

Tyler Harper Atlantic

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

Matthew Connelly New York Times

Why I’m Done with Notre Dame

Christian Smith First Things

Under Fire, Tenure Needs a New Defense

Jack Stripling Chronicle of Higher Education

How a Tiny School Became One of the Largest Universities

Todd Wallack WaPost

The Hidden Bureaucracy Radicalizing Your Children

Daniel Newman RealClearEd

The Case for Cursive

Mary Julia Koch Wall Street Journal

Grade Inflation Won’t Fix Itself

Barnum Isaac & Previn Harvard Crimson

Gender Studies Courses Are Shutting Down across the US

Joan Scott The Guardian

UC Berkeley's Alleged Discriminatory Student Programs

Zain Khan New York Post

Behavioral Activation Is the Phonics of Therapy

Geraghty & Goldstein Education Next

America’s Collective Civic Values Outweigh Its Divisions

Hans Zeiger The Hill

RealClearEducation Week of February 9, 2026 Archives

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