RealClearEducation Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18
How Can Colleges Teach Challenging Conversations?
Danielle McLean Higher Ed Dive
The School Trying to Rebuild Education for AI
Maya Sulkin The Free Press
California Lets Fired Teachers Keep Teaching
McDede and Simon ProPublica
Asian Professor Says SMU Relabeled Him 'White'
Natalie Sandoval The Daily Caller
DOJ Says Yale Med School Discriminates by Race
Leo Nyberg Yale Daily News
What Do We Know About CTE Credentials?
Shaun M. Dougherty Fordham Institute
Kill Canvas. Now.
Claire Bond Potter Chronicle
'A' Grades Are Suddenly Everywhere Since ChatGPT
Lindsay Ellis WSJ
Reading Scores Decline – a National Tragedy
Jean Twenge X (formerly Twitter)
Why Kids Don't Go Anywhere Anymore
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring


Tuesday, May 19
Maybe Don't Mention AI in Your Commencement Speech
Anthony Ha TechCrunch
Pay Attention
Jonathan Haidt The Atlantic
Nicholas Christakis Doesn’t Want to Talk About Halloween
Goldstein & Gutkin CHEd
Students Deserve Better
Iván Marinovic The Stanford Daily
Huge University Spending Yields Little Value
George Leef Martin Center
The Neutrality Lodestar: Reclaiming the Library
Kyle Breneman Fair For All
Phone Ban Causes 'Jaw-Dropping' Change in Classrooms
Rikki Schlott NY Post
Books Aren't Disappearing from Schools
Robert Pondiscio The Next 30 Years
Reports of the Death of 'Woke' May Be Exaggerated
Pamela Paresky RCEd
Fixing Mideast Studies Is Key to Fixing Universities
Gee & Romirowsky RCEd


Wednesday, May 20
The Secret Elite a Freshman Discovered at Stanford
Anand Giridharadas NY Times
Teacher in a Tutu
Robert Lynch Quillette
Lightning Strikes Twice
Kali Jerrard Minding The Campus
Can a Jew Be Trusted to Prosecute Protesters?
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
What Dartmouth Is Doing to Get Students Hired
Jessica Dickler CNBC
What Jonathan Haidt Actually Said at NYU
Greg Lukianoff Substack
The Fight Over Antisemitism Studies
Stephanie M. Lee Chronicle
A Prof Called Me a 'Nazi White Supremacist'
Adam Ellwanger Campusreform
What A.I. Did to My College Class
Theo Baker The New York Times
Democrats Should Not Ignore Tax Credit Scholarships
Cooper Conway RCEd


Thursday, May 21
My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon
Will Oremus The Atlantic
UVM Faces Enrollment Drop and $12M Deficit
Ike Bendavid WCAX
Hochul's Tax Credit and Catholic School Choice
Brian A. Graebe First Things
Keep Politics out of Commencement Speeches
Flier and Tomasi Boston Globe
Triple the Students Now Get Extra SAT Time
Alex Oliveira New York Post
The University That Chose to Shrink
Kate Hidalgo Bellows Chronicle
What's Happening to SF Schools Is the Warning
Eli Steele Man of Steele’s Substack
College Credit for This?
Hollis Robbins Anecdotal Value


Friday, May 22
Judson’s Last Ride
Sean Trende RealClearPolitics
One-Third of Teachers Still Use ‘Discredited’ Reading Methods
Jessika Harkay 74
The Benefits of a Later School Bell
Emily Oster The Dispatch
The Arizona Two-Step May Save Your University
Stanley Kurtz National Review
How a Dead Marxist Became the Most Powerful Force in Education
Murakhver RC
When Truth Is No Longer Paramount
John M. Kainer Martin Center
Turnitin, but for the AI Era
Rob Jenkins Minding The Campus
Special Ed Teachers Turn to AI for Help
Jonaki Mehta NPR
A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can't
Michal Leibowitz NY Times
Harvard Faculty Votes to Make It More Difficult to earn A’s
CNN
Harvard Admits College Grades Have Been a Joke
Thomas K. Lindsay RealClearEducation
America Needs Transparency in Higher Education
Cliff Smith RealClearEducation
60 Years after Coleman: Family Structure Matters
Goldy Brown III RealClearEducation
What America 250 Requires: a School That Built It
Samuel J. Abrams RealClearEducation
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