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A visit to the Veterans Life Center with education attainment leaders

by Cheyenne McNeill | August 11, 2025

The Veterans Life Center (VLC) is a residential facility dedicated to assisting at-risk veterans in North Carolina. Located in Granville County, the VLC opened in 2020 and has served dozens of veterans since.   According to its website, the VLC...

Early childhood education in the fifth district: The challenges and the opportunities

by Sonya Ravindranath Waddell | August 11, 2025

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in “Econ Focus,” the economics magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and is republished here with permission. The Richmond Fed is the home of the Federal Reserve’s Fifth District, serving North Carolina, South...

Brief | Limits of parent advocacy for science of reading aligned instruction in creating school-wide change

by NC Early Childhood Foundation | August 11, 2025

Editor’s Note: The seventh of an eight-part series on classroom experiences while transforming reading instruction is embedded below. EdNC is publishing a brief from that series each day. In North Carolina, the Excellent Public Schools Act requires all pre-K to...

Perspective | Fighting for a future that honors everyone’s humanity

by Laura Gerald | August 11, 2025

As I reflect upon my nine years as president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, there has never been a more challenging time to achieve our founder’s mission of ensuring N.C. residents with low incomes have access to quality...

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