RealClearEducation Week of April 27, 2026 Archives

The Case for College Hasn’t Changed

Shavar Jeffries The Hill

The Most Important Math Teacher in the World?

Ihtesham Ali X (formerly Twitter)

Repairing the Ruins

Santiago Schnell NCR

Elite Schools Insist It's About 'Belonging'

Jonathan Butcher The Daily Wire

When Satire Becomes Scandal

Reagan Allen Martin Center

Senators Fight Changes to Federal TRIO Program

Lily Altavena Chalkbeat

The 'Emotional Disturbance' Label Harms Students

Laurie Stern NPR

A 'Life Skills Ecosystem' for College Students

Nido Qubein U.S. News & World Report

Yale Has a Surefire Way to Make Things Worse

Michael S. Roth The New York Times

A Free Win for Governors: If They’ll Take It

Marc LeBlond RealClearEducation

The Generational Compact Is Broken

Carl Paulus RealClearEducation

The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

Theo Baker The Atlantic

God and Man at MIT

Siddhu Pachipala First Things

Nearly 350 Layoffs at 2 Massachusetts Colleges

Neal Riley CBS Boston

Layoffs, Cuts and Closures Coming to LAUSD

Ben Chapman The 74

Inflation Is Eroding Teacher Pay Raises

Cory Turner NPR

Trump's Higher Education Crackdown

Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder U.S. News & World Rep.

Trump's DEI Move Threatens Local Education Control

Tracey-Mooney & Toch FutureEd

Don't Know a Soul at Your College Yet?

Mary Frances Ruskell CNN

Special Education Research Funding May Lapse

Michelle Diament Disability Scoop

Have 'Disabilities' Become an Unfair Advantage in Higher Ed?

Various The Atlantic

Doomsday Letter from USC Business School Faculty

Nina Joudeh NY Post

The Devaluing of College Professors

Paul E. Peterson Education Next

The Yale Report Won't Save Higher Education

Paul du Quenoy Chronicles

Employers Struggle to Find Workers with AI Skills

Lara Ewen Higher Ed Dive

Will Kids Be Better Off Without Math Homework?

Ariel Gilreath The Hechinger Report

Virginia Public Schools’ Mental Health Misstep

Evans & Gorman City Journal

Thou Shalt Not Post Ten Commandments in Schools

Elizabeth Bruenig The Atlantic

Graduates Reset Ambitions in Pursuit of First Jobs

Sydney Ember The New York Times

'This Is a Generational Opportunity.'

Nicole Barbaro Simovski Free the Inquiry

To Save Pell Grants, Cut Programs That Pad Budgets

Andrew Gillen RCEd

Stop Making Students Choose College or a Paycheck

Bruno V. Manno RCEd

Why Are More Colleges at Risk of Closing?

CBS News CBS News

Parents Win the School Tech Backlash

Natasha Singer The New York Times

The Great Books: an Education for Liberty

Pano Kanelos Civitas Outlook

Relentless Focus on Literacy Undermines Pleasure

Rosie Peters-McDonald Guardian

Every Young Person Needs a Place to Learn about Work

Bruno Manno Phil. Daily

Universities Have a Conformity Crisis

Arthur Brooks The Free Press

Yale Class Day: Only 1 Republican in 50 Years

Jennifer Kabbany The College Fix

Teacher Resource: How the Birth Control Pill Reshaped America

Retro Report

What Will It Take to Get AI Out of Schools?

Jessica Winter The New Yorker

Professors Are Too Old

Samuel Moyn Chronicle of Higher Education

The Apprentice President, Missing on Apprenticeships

Zach Boren RCEd

Radicalism Is Not Just in Higher-Ed.

Cliff Smith RealClearEducation

The Unexpected Persistence of John Rawls

Joseph Heath Persuasion

I Built Radical Possibility in Schools

Deaunna Watson EdSurge

Black Kids in Book Deserts Don't Just Need to Read

Nosakhere Griffin-EL The 74

Three Days a Year Is Not a Civic Education

Samuel Abrams AEI

The Quiet Surge of Alternative Micro-Colleges

Matthew Smith Arc

McMahon Punches Back on Education Department Cuts

Mehta & Carrillo NPR

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

Goldstein & Lancaster New York Times

UNC Professor's Role in the COVID Cover-Up

Paul D. Thacker RealClearInvestigations

Community Colleges Want in on UNC 3-Year Degrees

Korie Dean The Assembly NC

Higher Ed's Enrollment Cliff

Ian Gibson The Virginian-Pilot

RealClearEducation Week of April 27, 2026 Archives

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