RealClearEducation Week of February 16, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 16
Why Tennessee Saw Major Test Score Improvement
Mark White Washington Post
When School Size Matters and When It Doesn't
Jill Barshay The Hechinger Report
Nation’s Report Card in Civics Getting a Makeover
Kelly & West Education Next
When It Comes to AI, Many K-12 Schools Are on Their Own
Janice Mak The Conv.
Epstein Files Name Bard President and Yale Professor
Scott Simon NPR
San Francisco Teachers Strike Ends
Sara Braun The Guardian
Teaching Hospital Glossary Says Biology Doesn’t Define Sex
Cecilia Jones TCF
LA School Board Considers 3,200 Possible Layoffs
Howard Blume LA Times
Why I’m Done with Notre Dame
Christian Smith First Things
The Billion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities
Tyler Harper Atlantic


Tuesday, February 17
When Parents Pay Twice to Escape Public Schools
J.T. Young Blaze Media
There’s a Reason American Kids Are Such Picky Eaters
Helen Zoe Veit NY Times
The Castle, the Cathedral, and the College
Pano Kanelos Civitas Institute
The Campaign to Make Professors Teach More
Megan Zahneis Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Momentum For 3-Year College Degrees Is Growing
Michael T. Nietzel Forbes
CUNY Trains Community in Constructive Dialogue
Joshua Bay Inside Higher Ed
The Social Justice War on Grammar
Nan Miller The James G. Martin Center
The Academic Veneer Normalizing Terrorism
Dershowitz & Fischberger FDD
She Resigned as Penn President. Now She’s Back.
Evan Mandery Politico
An Ivy League President Breaks Ranks
Peter Wood Minding The Campus


Wednesday, February 18
Why Every College Needs a Marriage Preparation Office
Leah Libresco Sargeant IFS
Politics and the Possibility of the Humanities
Nathaniel Peters Civitas Institute
School Choice Could be GOP's Gubernatorial Gamechanger
J.T. Young The Hill
Reading Makes Us Better Citizens
Mary Katharine Ham National Review
Epstein’s Ties With Academics
By Alan Blinder The New York Times
I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A.
Isaac Mansell The Free Press
The Parents Who Reject School Laptops
Tyler Kingkade NBC News
Gentle Parenting Is Doomed to Fail
Maryanne Fisher iai


Thursday, February 19
Politics and the Possibility of the Humanities
Nathaniel Peters Civitas Institute
What Science Should Learn from the Epstein Files
American Chemical Society
Parental Supervision Doesn't Curb Compulsive Social Media Use
Sarah Perez TC
Adventurous Play Is Associated with Lower Anxiety
Dominic Ng X
Money Is Tight and Campus Fees Are Rising at Cal State
Amy DiPierro Edsource
A Smarter Path for ESAs
Jennifer Burns RealClearEducation
What We Can Learn from Girls’ Sports
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
Surprising Revival: Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion
Kotkin & Mahlobo RCI
China's Invisible Academic Networks
Lilla Nora Kiss RealClearEducation


Friday, February 20
Studying Successful Schools Is Not Enough
Robert Pondiscio Fordham Institute
Higher Ed’s Most Divisive Chancellor
Kate Hidalgo Bellows Chronicle of Higher Education
I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A.
Isaac Mansell The Free Press
Oklahoma Is ‘Phasing Out’ Tenure
Megan Zahneis Chronicle of Higher Education
Civic Education Happens in Stone and Space
Justin Shubow Jack Miller Center
Texas Considers Restrictions on ‘Controversial’ Teaching
Ben Unglesbee HEd Dive
Columbia Punishes 2 Who Helped Epstein’s Girlfriend
Ed Shanahan New York Times
Deporting Censorship: US Targets UK Ally over Free Speech
Paul Thacker RCI
Kids Are Struggling. Banning Social Media Won’t Fix It.
Sam Bowman Wash Post
How to Give Kids Screen-Free Play Time
Nicole Cooper Let Grow
David Brooks on the Sins of the Educated Class
Evan Goldstein Chronicle of Higher Ed
Connection Is Key to College Completion
Milliron & Manocha RealClearEducation
California’s Constitutional Test Case for School Choice
Walter Myers III RCEd
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