Impacts from statewide public school closures during the COVID-19 era are still being felt, North Carolina’s new Democratic superintendent at the Department of Public Instruction says.
Math performance has slightly rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic closed schools, but reading performance hasn’t bounced back, according to new National Assessment of Educational Progress data released Wednesday.
Math performance in North Carolina has slightly improved since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling, but reading scores remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to new data released Wednesday by the U.
The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail on his former COVID adviser Dr Anthony Fauci, despite Dr Fauci facing regular threats to his life.
President Donald Trump said on Friday Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former top health official who has faced threats since leading the country's COVID-19 response, should hire his own security, the latest former U.
Dr Meg Schaeffer, an epidemiologist at the SAS Institute, told AFP that “misinformation around Covid-19” was driving down overall vaccination rates in the US, including for long-conquered measles. “The result is hundreds of cases of measles in kids, half of whom are hospitalised – that’s something we never used to see in the US,” she said.
North Carolina officials and advocates denounced President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in federal aid in a news conference Friday, warning of widespread harm to families, older adults,
A lot of commercial real estate lenders have used short-term loan extensions and modifications to delay writing off losses.
Guilford County Schools’ students halted a long slide in reading test scores in 2024 and its fourth-graders had a significant increase in math test scores, according to a new report being released today.
The Nation’s Report Card for 2024, released today, revealed continued declines in reading scores among U.S. students, exacerbating a trend that began even