RealClearEducation Week of May 11, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 11
Harvard Tries Grade Deflation
Daniel Buck Martin Center
May Day or Mayday in Chicago?
J.T. Young Spectator
Pondiscio vs. Ryan on State-Led Curriculum Reform
Michael Petrilli Fordham Inst.
AI Gives More Praise, Less Criticism to Black Students
Jill Barshay Hechinger
College Students Learn to Socialize Phone-Free
Susan Svrluga Washington Post
Cal State OpenAI Deal Divides Campus
Angel Corzo CalMatters
Justice Dept. Finds UCLA Used Race in Admissions
Hollingsworth & Binkley AP News
Cyberattack Hits as School Finals Loom
Associated Press
Harvard's 'Annoying Socratic Gadfly' Takes a Lap
Goldstein and Gutkin Chronicle
The Commencement Lectern Is Not a Pulpit
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation


Tuesday, May 12
It's Demoralizing to Teach Scrolling Students
Emily Oster The New York Times
In AI Adoption, Don't Forget the Human Touch
Joy Delizo-Osborne The Hechinger Report
If You Love Reading, Skip Grad School
Eric Jager Compact
Civic Discourse Programs Are Doing the Work
Michael Murray Chronicle
Rara Avis: Professor Finds Harvard's Faults
John Staddon Martin Center
How Conservatives Took Over the NEH
Matt Hartman Chronicle of Higher Education
The Perverse Tyranny of a Perfect Transcript
Joshua Greene The Atlantic
Hampshire College Is Closing, and It's Not So Bad
Ethan Ris Slate


Wednesday, May 13
How to Limit Unauthorized AI Use in the Classroom
Hollis Robbins Anecdotal Value
I Knew My Writing Students Were Using AI
Micah Nathan Guardian
The Quiet Push to Control AI Speech
John Coleman Expression
The DOGE-ing of the Humanities Is Being Reversed
Ables & Kingsberry The Atlantic
Professor Finds Harvard's Faults
John Staddon Martin Center
Brandeis Is Trying to Change College Shopping
Ron Lieber The New York Times
Swarthmore May Rename Building over Racial Scandal
Susan Snyder Inquirer
May Day in Chicago
Josh Weiner RealClearEducation
Getting Teens out of Dead-End Jobs
Lauren Weber Wall Street Journal
How Charter Schools Reshaped Public Education
Bruno V. Manno RealClearEducation
Remembering Washington's Patriotism
Dillon Carney & Zeiger RealClearPolitics
We Send Students to College. We Don't Prepare Them
Jacob Lane RCEducation


Thursday, May 14
How Harvard’s Reparations Plan Flopped
Novi Zhukovsky The Free Press
The Constitution Is Optional. DEI Is Not.
Kevin Wallsten City Journal
Harvard Votes on Limiting 'A' Grades
Mike Deehan Axios
The Revolt against i-Ready School Software
Tyler Kingkade NBC News
What Psychiatrists Mean by A.D.H.D.
Awais Aftab The New York Times
Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans
Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker
How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
Rose Horowitch The Atlantic
Bosses Horrified by 'AI Native' College Graduates
Joe Wilkins Futurism
College Students Have Become Religiously Illiterate
Matthew Schmitz Wash Post


Friday, May 15
Why Kids Don't Go Anywhere Anymore
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
Reading Scores Decline – a National Tragedy
Jean Twenge X (formerly Twitter)
Why Test Scores Are in a 'Generation-Long Decline'
Claire Cain Miller & Francesca Paris & Sarah Mervosh The New York Times
Parents Aren't Happy as Kindergartens Go All in on AI
Matt Stieb Intelligencer
The Perfect Storm for ADHD Overdiagnosis
Omary & Singer The Dispatch
AI Cheating Concerns at Princeton
Katrina Morgan WFAA
How Some Universities Have Made Grades Meaningless
Neetu Arnold City Journal
Why a Dean Stopped Trusting Social Psychology
Michael Inzlicht Substack
NYU Students Object to Speaker Calling Them Coddled
Peters & Haag NY Times
Teacher Resource: Gerrymandering
Andrew McGill Retro Report
A Commencement Address That Forgot the Graduates
Samuel J. Abrams RCEd
Qatari Money Funded Jewish Conspiracy in Texas
Simone Weichselbaum RCEd
Dept. of Education Wrongly Targets Beauty Schools
Faye & Wells RealClearEducation
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