News Parents: Here’s what to know about child care as North Carolina reopens and reports COVID-19 clusters by Liz Bell | June 22, 2020 Sixty-six percent of all licensed child care facilities are now open in North Carolina, compared with 43% in April, according...
News Community colleges work to strengthen early childhood teacher pipeline by Liz Bell | June 15, 2020 At the beginning of this year, Fren’Tres McGhee, an early childhood teacher and student at Central Piedmont Community College, was...
News Districts will choose what reading assessments they use next year. Why and how? by Liz Bell | June 10, 2020 After a year of controversy and a legal battle over what company North Carolina would use to test its early...
News Task force finalizes recommendations with aim to improve reading outcomes by Liz Bell | June 1, 2020 The State Board of Education Literacy Task Force unanimously approved its recommendations Monday on changes the state should make to...
News NC Child releases annual indicators of children’s well-being for all 100 counties by Liz Bell | May 28, 2020 NC Child, a nonprofit organization that focuses on issues that affect young children, has released its 2020 County Data Cards...
News Task force’s work on improving reading instruction to go before State Board next week by Liz Bell | May 28, 2020 The State Board of Education Literacy Task Force is zeroing in on its final recommendations for how reading instruction should...
News Home visiting without home visiting: Programs adapt and support families — but with limited reach by Liz Bell | May 27, 2020 Julie Smith, a licensed counselor for Child First, an intensive home visiting program that provides mental health support to young...
News NC should measure children’s social and emotional health, a report says. Here’s how. by Liz Bell | May 19, 2020 Experts in children’s health are worried about the COVID-19 ordeal’s potential effects on young brains. Especially in the earliest years...
News DHHS grants will help child care centers that remained open or are reopening by Liz Bell | May 15, 2020 Financial relief could come as soon as next week for child care centers that have been caring for children despite...
News Child care centers say they’re still in need as they reopen to working parents by Liz Bell | May 14, 2020 Child care centers remain in the challenging position of supporting North Carolina’s working parents with insufficient resources, center leaders and...
Perspective Perspective | NC Pre-K slips in national rankings as COVID-19 crisis underscores need by Mandy Ableidinger | May 13, 2020 NC Pre-K is serving the same percentage of the state’s 4-year-olds that it was 10 years ago, and the program...
News Here are a literacy task force’s initial ideas on bettering the teaching of reading by Liz Bell | May 12, 2020 A team of education leaders, charged with recommending improvements to reading instruction in classrooms across North Carolina, is refining its...
