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.
Test scores are up for North Carolina’s public-school students — a welcome development, although the news isn’t all good. On average, 55% of students in grades three or higher tested proficient on last year’s state exams. For the 2023-24 school year, that figure was 54.2%. In 2018-19, the last full academic year before COVID, it...
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%.
If we want better outcomes for the next generation, we must stop seeking a single perfect system and instead create space for many good ones to grow.
North Carolina students have performed at or above the national average on a key assessment on math and reading, but the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to pose challenges in closing achievement gaps, according to new data from the United States Department of Education.
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.
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.
From 2022 to 2024, there was a marked decline in the number of students rated below the state’s benchmark for reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension.
“For God’s sake, why can’t we just teach them to read?” was my reaction after watching a video of a North Carolina preschool teacher using precious class time to introduce gender ideology and her new “friend” Nash, the nonbinary doll, to young children. In the case of preschoolers, just teach them the letters in Nash’s...
A research brief from curriculum publisher Amplify shows that elementary school students continue to lag behind in literacy almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. The mid-school-year assessment concluded that students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade are the furthest behind compared to their pre-pandemic counterparts. Black and Hispanic students are bearing the brunt...
“If Catherine Truitt seeks to be seen as the state’s education leader, the route isn’t via reflexive partisan fealty,” the WRAL-TV editorialist snarled.
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