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Please view The 74’s republishing terms. From literacy, New Orleans after Katrina and special ed for all to fr”,”copyrightYear”:”2025″,”articleSection”:”Education”,”articleBody”:”nnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnntttttnn Republish This Articlen We want our stories to be shared as widely as possible u2014 for free.n Please view The 74’s republishing terms.nn nn From literacy, New Orleans after Katrina and special ed for all to freedom of speech and teachers who gave up, what our op-ed writers had to saynn By The 74nn nn This story first appeared at The 74a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox.n nLiteracy, literacy, literacy was the hottest topic on The 74u2019s opinion pages this year. Whether it was Chad Aldeman and Eamonn Fitzmauriceu2019s deep dives into schools and districts that are beating the odds for their students, practical explanations of classroom practice in teaching reading or the continuing debate about the science of reading versus so-called balanced literacy, our op-ed writers had lots to say. But that wasnu2019t all they had to talk about. From the power of handwriting and special ed for all to freedom of speech, Gen Z teachers, citizenship tests and school choice, here, in no particular order, are 12 of our most read, talked-about and impactful essays of 2025.nnnnnBright Spots: These Schools Are Beating the Odds in Teaching Kids to ReadnnnnnnnnEarly reading is highly predictive of later-life outcomes, and thereu2019s often a strong correlation between a schoolu2019s poverty level and its reading proficiency rate. But around the country, exceptional schools are beating the odds. Columnist Chad Aldeman and The 74u2019s art and technology director Eamonn Fitzmaurice crunched the numbers for 10,000 districts, 42,000 schools and 3 million kids to find the schools that are exceeding expectations in teaching kids to read, and plotted the results on an interactive map. Is your school a Bright Spot?nnnnnnThe Power of Handwriting: Improved Reading, Thinking, Memory and LearningnnnnnnnnIn a world where digital devices are everywhere, itu2019s easy to wonder if handwriting still matters. But research keeps confirming what many teachers have known for years: Handwriting is more than just penmanship u2014 itu2019s an important part of a childu2019s thinking and literacy development, particularly during the formative years of pre-K through fifth grade. Learning Without Tears educators Elizabeth DeWitt, Cheryl Lundy Swift and Christina Bretz explain.nnnnnnThe Inconvenient Success of New Orleans SchoolsnnnnnnnnThe tragedy of Hurricane Katrina inadvertently created the conditions for one of the most remarkable education experiments in American history. Today, that experiment has quietly produced results that should be making national headlines. But Ravi Gupta, creator of the Where the Schools Went podcast, argues that instead, itu2019s met with a curious indifference that reveals something broken about Americau2019s politics and media. New Orleans, he says, is a rare example of adversaries becoming collaborators, ideology yielding to evidence and a community choosing pragmatic progress over ideological purity.nnnnnnWe Started Grouping Students by Reading Ability vs. Grade. Hereu2019s What HappenednnnnnnnnFacing a post-COVID decline in reading proficiency, Ellis Elementary in Rockford, Illinois, tried a new approach: Students were sorted by reading ability, allowing educators to teach skills that every student in the room was ready for, with no watered down instruction, writes the schoolu2019s instructional coach, Jessica Berg. The results go beyond test scores, though those have improved: the school has seen an 18 percentage-point gain since the 2021 low and a 25-point drop in the number of students identified as at-risk.nnnnnnTo Make Sure Gifted Kids Get an Appropriate Education, Why Not Put Them in Special Ed?nnnnnnnnNew York City parents of gifted-and-talented kids are desperate. In some neighborhoods, half of students score in the top 10th percentile on IQ tests, but a shortage of G&T seats equals thousands of underserved kids. A number of states offer Individualized Education Programs or similar plans for gifted students, and Kansas goes so far as to bundle giftedness under special education and give all students who qualify an IEP. Alina Adams, a New York-based author, blogger and mother of three, asks some NYC parents what they think.nnnnnnGen Z Teachers Are Ready to Reinvent Education. Schools Need to Catch UpnnnnnnnnGen Z teachers, born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, are entering classrooms with fresh energy, says Anajah Philogene, executive director of Teach For America Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and a former teacher. They are digital natives, eager to leverage technology. They bring a keen understanding of student needs because they were recently students themselves. They are naturally inclined to collaborate, provide individualized learning and engage students and their families. That combination makes Gen Z teachers the type of talent that education needs right now. It also means schools must adapt if they hope to keep them.nnnnnnThe Voices We Donu2019t Hear: Teachers Who Gave UpnnnnnnnnTeaching is among the most optimistic and aspirational professions, drawing idealists who believe education can transform lives. But celebrating only the success stories u2014 teachers who beat the odds, schools that defy demographics u2014 distorts our vision, writes American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Robert Pondiscio. Other fields learn from failure: medicine from misdiagnoses, aviation from crashes. Here, Pondiscio urges people to invite teachers who quit to speak up u2014 not to shame them, but to learn from them. nnnnnnThe Promise and Peril of Americau2019s School Choice MovementnnnnnnnnWill school choice become a lever for equity or another layer of inequality? What happens next depends less on whether choice exists and more on how leaders, policymakers and practitioners choose to design, regulate and support it, says education consultant and former high school principal Meagan Booth. That means dealing with transportation challenges, complicated enrollment systems, the lack of special education services and the need for fair funding and accountability. u201cChoice without infrastructure only stands to reinforce privilege rather than broaden opportunity,u201d she writes.nnnnnnAcross All Ages & Demographics, Test Results Show Americans Are Getting DumbernnnnnnnnUntil about a decade ago, student achievement scores were rising. Those gains were broadly shared across racial and economic lines, and achievement gaps were closing. But then something happened, and scores started to fall. Worse, they fell faster for lower-performing students, and achievement gaps started to grow. And, says contributor Chad Aldeman, similar declines are seen in assessments of adults. Why this is remains a huge unanswered question.nnnnnnThe Remarkable Educational Attainment Gains of the School Reform ErannnnnnnnConversations about education tend to focus on either the decline in student achievement over the last 12 years or recent progress in some Southern states. But whatu2019s hardly ever noted, writes Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, is that the declines since 2013 or so came on the heels of two decades of remarkable progress. Young people made huge gains from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s, when education reform was at its zenith. We need to celebrate that success more often u2014 and get back to making that kind of progress again.nnnnnnFree Speech Is a Right. Educators Have a Responsibility to Use It WiselynnnnnnnnAttorney General Pam Bondiu2019s threatened prosecution of u201chate speechu201d after Charlie Kirku2019s assassination shocked many on the right, whose views have been silenced under that label. But in education, the issue isnu2019t only what teachers and professors can legally say, writes James V. Shuls, head of the Education Liberty branch of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University u2014 itu2019s what they are morally and professionally obligated to do. Academic freedom is a trust extended to those forming minds and shaping citizens. When teachers and professors embrace it, education flourishes. When they abandon it, students and society suffer.nnnnnnI Just Wrote a Book About Alternative Ed u2014 But My Child Chose a Public SchoolnnnnStudents arrive at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where the authoru2019s daughter is a freshman. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)nnnnWhen Kerry McDonaldu2019s daughter announced she wanted to go to public high school, McDonaldu2019s first response was u201cno.u201d After all, McDonald u2014 a senior fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and host of the LiberatED podcast u2014 was writing a book about the unconventional schools and learning options that have sprouted in recent years. But she soon changed her mind, recognizing that if educational freedom was truly her top value, her daughter deserved it, too. u201cAs parents, we should look at our childrenu2019s distinct educational needs and interests, and say u2018yesu2019 when they want a change,u201d she writes.nnnnnnMaking HS Grads Pass a Citizenship Test Is Fine. But Civics Ed Must Start Much EarliernnnnnnnnThe U.S. Citizenship Test is a straightforward assessment of basic knowledge about Americau2019s government, history, geography and democratic principles. In a number of states, high schoolers must take it to graduate. But, says American Enterprise Instituteu2019s Robert Pondiscio, if 17-year-olds are cramming basic facts to fulfill a last-minute requirement, weu2019ve already missed the boat. 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