RealClearEducation Week of May 4, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 4
Yale Narrows Its Mission Statement to Focus on Knowledge
Nyberg et al. Yale
Inside Vanderbilt: the 'New Harvard'
Kelly Rissman The Times
Ex-Harvard Scientist Defects to China for AI Army
Gabrielle Fahmy New York Post
What Education Can Learn from Major League Baseball
Michael Hartney The 74
Fake Student Loan Debt Offers Proliferate
Jeffrey R. Young The Hechinger Report
Education Dept.: New Rule to Lower College Costs
Aaron Gifford The Epoch Times
A Little-Known Lawsuit May Weaken Ethics Boards
Russell Warne JMC
Teaching by Ability Does Not Hamper Less Able Pupils
Richard Adams Guardian
The Apprentice President, Missing on Apprenticeships
Zach Boren RCEd
Radicalism Is Not Just in Higher-Ed.
Cliff Smith RealClearEducation


Tuesday, May 5
School Cellphone Bans: Study Finds Mixed Results
Dana Goldstein New York Times
First Major US School District Limits Screen Time
Tyler Kingkade NBC News
We Took Away the Phones — Now What?
Seth Kaplan After Babel
Texas A&M Course Allows AI for 20% of Essay
Ana Hathaway The College Fix
Trump Proposes Cuts to the Education Budget
Madison Marino The Daily Signal
Trump to Cut Aid to Low-Earning College Programs
Preston Fore Fortune
New Bills Target Universities with Foreign Ties
AP
Linda McMahon Defends Education Cuts at Hearing
Mehta & Carrillo NPR
Boys Don’t Need Looksmaxxing! They Need Purpose.
Delphine Chui Substack
University Scrapes Courses for AI, Skips Faculty
Emmy Martin Chronicle of Higher Education


Wednesday, May 6
Higher Ed Affordability: Not Just the Price
Michael T. Nietzel Washington Monthly
Federal Ed Tax Credit Creates Blue State Dilemma
Hess and Berner AEI
Harvard Needs a Performance Review
The Crimson Editorial Board Harvard Crimson
Why America's Students Are Choosing Self-Censorship
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
New Grants, No Way to Measure Education Success
Jason Godfrey The 74
How Curriculum Reform Improved Middle School Math
Candice McGann The Hechinger Report
Ed Dept. Opens Title IX Probe into Smith College
Isa Dominguez Politico
Bard College President to Retire after Revelations of Epstein Ties
AP
We Should Pay More for the Best Teachers
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
Five Things to Know About Largest Cell Phone Ban Study
Greg Toppo The 74 Million


Thursday, May 7
Do States That Spend More Get Better Grades?
Nick Jachim The Hill
High School Reform for Dummies
Frederick Hess Education Next
Stop Donating to Harvard; Fund HBCUs Instead
Ed Smith-Lewis Fortune
It’s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
Shayla Love The New Yorker
How the SPLC Impoverished Higher Education
Peter Wood Minding The Campus
Student Loan Payments to Rise for Millions
Ira Porter The Christian Science Monitor
The Rise of 'Shadow Faculty'
Walter Hudson EDU Ledger
AI Godfather LeCun's Blunt Advice for the AI Age
Madison Mills & Ina Fried Axios
Some Kid Watched 13,000 Hours of YouTube in Class
Luis Prada VICE
Chicago Schools Engage in Civic Miseducation
Nicholas Kryczka Washington Post


Friday, May 8
The Commencement Lectern Is Not a Pulpit
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
Why Pedagogy 'Experts' Are Wrong
Paul Schofield Chronicle
Why We Are Suing the Department of Education
Charles Ornstein ProPublica
Harvard's 'Annoying Socratic Gadfly' Takes a Lap
Goldstein and Gutkin Chronicle
Higher Ed's New Crisis Managers
Lee Gardner Chronicle
Charlie Kirk Changed My College Decision
Gregory Lyakhov Townhall
Redeeming Harold Bloom
Blake Bailey UnHerd
A True American at Yale
Pavilonis et al. The Dispatch
It Shouldn’t Be So Hard to Open Schools
Charles Mitchell City Journal
USC Will Infuse AI across Campus with $200 Million
Alan Blinder NY Times
Stanford Students Try 'Date Drop' Matchmaking
Jasmine Li WSJ
What People Get Wrong about Homeschoolers
Sarah Wilder RealClearEducation
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