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The next phase for literacy reform in North Carolina and beyond
1+ hour ago (1042+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. Over the past several years, states across the country have rewritten early literacy policy at an unprecedented pace. Science of reading legislation, teacher training requirements, instructional…...
How a federal grant brought mental health services into schools across 6 North Carolina school districts
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (1636+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. Editor’s note: This article discusses mental health and suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, reach out to the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline…...
A Tarboro church's summer reading camp brings in the whole town
1+ week, 4+ day ago (880+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. In a classroom at Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, the wolf was explaining himself. He only wanted a cup of sugar for his granny’s cake. Then…...
The decrease of play-based learning in early childhood education
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (583+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. Kindergarten classrooms across the nation are changing — and not for the better. Kindergarten is no longer a grade dedicated to discovery, creativity, and developing the foundational…...
Perspective | What 3,500 neighbors and 15,363 books taught us
2+ week, 4+ day ago (437+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. On Saturday, July 18, more than 3,500 neighbors filled Durham Central Park for our annual Summer Block Party — and in just three hours, children harvested 15,363 books to take…...
Perspective | When researchers and mothers become partners, communities become visible
2+ week, 5+ day ago (687+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. “What worries me most is that my children feel my stress.” None of these stories would have appeared in a multiple-choice survey question. Four years ago,…...
A Transylvania County pilot is paying a group of grandparents, other at-home providers for 'the invisible work' of care
2+ week, 5+ day ago (849+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. When Trudy McCall found out her son and daughter-in-law were pregnant, she immediately offered to help on the weekends. At the time, McCall was living in…...
Literacy supports cultural connection and fosters hope in this rural community
2+ week, 6+ day ago (757+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. Walking through the halls of Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church in Robeson County, you see drawings of cats with buttons and vowel worksheets on the walls....
A Swansboro church builds its first summer reading camp
3+ week, 6+ day ago (949+ words) The youngest child at camp is five. When it started, he couldn’t reliably pick out the letters in his own name. Three weeks in, he was sitting at a table inside Swansboro United Methodist Church, sounding out words and telling…...
Case against Meta for alleged harms to child users is going to trial
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (360+ words) “Meta designed their social media platforms to be addictive and misled the public about them being safe for kids. Then, they asked the court to let them off the hook,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “The judge said no. We’ll…...