As recently as 2019, North Carolina schools ranked seventh in the country in value-added performance. In 2024, we were 32nd.
A new Harvard-Stanford-Dartmouth scorecard ranks North Carolina ninth nationally in math recovery since 2022 but just 22nd in reading, with the average student now reading roughly two-thirds of a grade level behind 2019 despite the state's 2021 science-of-reading law.
Only 36% of today’s 13-year-olds say they read for fun at least once a week. Back in 1984, the share of young American teens who did so was 70%.
Although student performance is recovering from the pandemic, only 48.6% of third graders are reading at grade level. Reading to your child is a proven way to boost their reading skills.
North Carolina’s public school students continue to demonstrate academic improvement, according to the 2023-24 state test results presented to the State Board of Education at its September meeting. The latest data reveals gains across most grades and subjects, with significant progress noted in math and English language learners. For the second consecutive year, students achieved...
A government bureaucracy, even one with as many dedicated public servants as our public schools, will never care as much about a child's success as their parents do.
For the third consecutive year, North Carolina’s kindergarten through third-grade students have outperformed the national average on end-of-year literacy assessments. That’s according to data presented to the State Board of Education on Thursday. The number of NC students meeting or exceeding the benchmark for the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills—or DIBELS 8—assessment increased...
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