A Brunswick County charter school management organization that has been at the center of a legal controversy over the dress code at one of its schools gets high marks for student test scores, according to a new analysis.
Published: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"Significant achievement gaps persist."
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 12:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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According to sources, local Dad Amos Bennet discovered he suddenly had the ability to read over 1,000 words per minute while reading to his kids at bedtime yesterday evening.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 8:02 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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replaces failing modern "sight-reading" curriculum
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 5:21 pm
By: John Steed
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For more than a decade we’ve studied the problem exhaustively, we’ve talked about it almost incessantly, we’ve engaged the latest curriculum du jour, and have spent more than $50 million dollars, yet we still can’t solve the mystery of our children’s reading proficiency.
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 9:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Legislative leaders are baffled. We all should be. After pouring more than $200 million additional dollars into helping our children read at grade level, they (and we) want to know when we are going to see results.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The long-anticipated 2022 math and reading scores from National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) have been released. As expected, the NAEP scores, commonly known as the nation’s report card, were not good.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 8:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We all know there are tremendous benefits to reading the Bible, but it's so hard to be consistent with reading it every day!
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 12:34 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Scores in math and reading declined at the worst level in decades for students during the pandemic, according to a new assessment.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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It is true that “you don’t always know what you got til it’s gone,” (even if that is improper English), but a lot of misery can be avoided by understanding history and looking at data rather than relying solely on feelings when implementing change.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2022 @ 11:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina students in early elementary education are reading more proficiently today compared to a year ago, according to the results of a new analysis.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 11:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The two books of my summer reading paint a picture of America that is both unsettling and understandable. Anne Applebaum is an award - winning historian and prizewinning author.
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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North Carolina surpassing other states for early reading comprehension in schools post-pandemic.
Published: Sunday, August 7th, 2022 @ 8:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Roughly 70% of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries cannot read following school lockdowns, according to the World Bank, while American children of the same age are experiencing similar issues.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A Seattle street preacher says he was arrested for simply reading his Bible at a public park near a Seattle Gay Pride event.
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 5:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Reminder for all you Christians who started a one-year Bible reading plan in January: it might be time to start that thing. The good news is that if you read half of the entire Bible today, you'll be completely caught up!
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 10:41 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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It's important for kids to read because it nurtures their imagination and will help them understand important concepts like the political background in the world of Dune—or why socialism fails every time it's tried.
Published: Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 @ 10:29 am
By: Babylon Bee
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More than three quarters of students at one Baltimore high school are reading at an elementary level, with many reading at a kindergarten level.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 10:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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The act modifies reading instruction programs to improve literacy of N.C. public school students by the third grade
Published: Sunday, July 11th, 2021 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On March 31, the North Carolina Senate passed the hugely controversial SB 387, titled the Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021, by a margin of 48 senators in favor, none opposed.
Published: Thursday, April 8th, 2021 @ 7:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I’m an avid reader — someone who reads every night and never goes anywhere without a book.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:29 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Earlier this month, I was honored to attend “North Carolina and the Science of Reading,” an event sponsored by the Charlotte-based Belk Foundation.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2020 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More cases reported in the U.S.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 9:12 am
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina ranks 12th in the nation for how it prepares teachers to teach children to read, a new report shows.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A court has rejected an attempt by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and Istation for it to intervene in a dispute over a K-3 reading tool contract.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 9:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Do people still read books? It depends on whom you ask. A Wall Street Journal Article posed the question differently: "Does the Book Have a Future?"
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 1:56 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The children in the study were all enrolled in the first, second or third grade at the time of the testing, which was done in British Columbia
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 8:42 am
By: LifeZette
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The school year may be halfway over — or more — before the contract dispute between competing reading diagnostic companies is resolved, leaving students at public schools in limbo.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 9:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Newly released school performance grades show reading scores have remained stagnant despite millions spent on reading interventions.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2019 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Reading is the foundation upon which all learning is built, however North Carolina’s success rate in helping children master reading proficiency isn’t stellar.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 4:26 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As most N.C. public schools prepared to open a new academic year, teachers have temporarily lost access to a key diagnostic tool to evaluate students’ reading skills.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 @ 3:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Department of Public Instruction has reaffirmed its decision to award the K-3 reading diagnostic tool to Istation, despite a chorus of criticism from some Democratic lawmakers, educational activists, and the previous contract holder, Amplify.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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