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Lexia Announces 2025 Science of Reading Week: Advancing Literacy, Together

ET Magazine

11, 2025 The journey to literacy leadership is filled with milestones, unexpected challenges, and transformative moments for each educator. Lexias four-day Science of Reading Week will equip attendees to take the next step in their journey. This year, were continuing on this journey.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

education system. And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment. When he tried to enroll, he found that colleges had no idea how to handle his international transcripts and credentials. But Davenport’s president, Richard J.

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D.C. experimented with giving child care workers big raises. The project may not last

The Hechinger Report

But earlier this year, the roughly 4,000 early educators who have benefited from the pay equity program were dealt a blow by Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2025 budget proposal. The program has been able to pay teachers more without passing the costs directly to parents, said the center’s advocacy manager, Adam Barragan-Smith.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

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OPINION: Three ways to help more underrepresented students graduate from college

The Hechinger Report

The recent embarrassing scandal over rich folks allegedly rigging the admissions system for their children’s benefit offers a tailwind for efforts to boost education equity. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

Even if that rebounds, the number of potential future college freshmen graduating from high schools nationwide will begin decreasing after 2025 , the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education estimates. Colleges competing for students “know there’s a bad brand out there for the liberal arts.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.