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Perspective | NC Pre-K slips in national rankings as COVID-19 crisis underscores need

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NC Pre-K is serving the same percentage of the state’s 4-year-olds that it was 10 years ago, and the program...

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Perspective | North Carolina’s new Preschool Development Grant: How will $40M be invested?

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A new three-year, $40 million federal grant will support improvements to North Carolina’s early education system (birth through five). The...

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Perspective | AttendaNCe Counts: Personalized early outreach improves regular attendance

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Midway Elementary School principal Robbin Cooper believes that attendance challenges are best solved by intentionally engaging parents as partners. She’s...

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Perspective | AttendaNCe Counts: The importance of celebrating attendance

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For the students at Union Elementary, the promise of a dance party is seriously motivating. Part of Principal Dondi Hobbs’...

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Perspective | AttendaNCe Counts: Monitoring data to boost attendance

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When it comes to making sure young children are in school every day, data matters. Kimberlee Stone, principal of C.C....

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Perspective | AttendaNCe counts: Engaging students and parents

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It’s still 90 degrees here in North Carolina and Halloween seems far off, but the 2019-20 school year is well...

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Perspective | A whole-child, birth-through-8 approach to improving early literacy

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Test scores are in for the 2018-19 school year, and third grade reading proficiency has not changed much from previous...

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What the research says about online early learning options for preschoolers

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The NC House Education Committee recently moved forward a bill to pilot and potentially scale an online early learning program for...

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Stronger kids and families make a stronger NC

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We need to strengthen families to build a strong community. It all starts with smart infant and toddler programs and...

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Broad collaboration on action plan to improve third-grade reading and child and family well-being

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The North Carolina General Assembly has just kicked off a new legislative session, and third-grade reading outcomes are likely to...

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NC Pre-K one of only two state preschool programs in the nation that measure teaching quality and meet standards

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NC Pre-K provides high-quality preschool to eligible four-year-olds in North Carolina. The state’s preschool program scored significantly better than the...

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Predictable third grade reading assessment results prompt the question – How can we do better?

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The most recent NC end of third grade reading assessment results show scores hardly shifting from last year and continued...