Read to Achieve

North Carolina officials say there's progress with young readers but third-grade reading goals will likely remain unmet.

After eye-catching gains in 2019, Mississippi's latest reading scores leave room for debate over the program that inspired North Carolina to invest $50 million.

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt gave North Carolina legislators new data on dramatic reading gains for kindergarteners. A few hours later the state corrected it.

Racial gaps and pandemic setbacks drive a demand for more testing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, but one top official says it's time to scale back next year.

Second- and third-graders across North Carolina continue to struggle with basic reading skills they missed during the pandemic, a state official says.

Despite hopes of a rebound from pandemic disruption, preliminary results show Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools third-graders are scoring worse in reading this year than in 2021.

North Carolina's $50 million bid to boost reading skills gets under way as more than 10,000 teachers begin a time-consuming, two-year program in the science of reading.

North Carolina teachers must spend 80 hours a year learning new strategies based on the science of reading. Leaders scramble to find time and money to support them, saying teachers are exhausted but kids need the help.

Almost one-third of North Carolina third graders were held back this year because of failing reading scores during the pandemic. The state's Read To Achieve Act discourages "social promotion."

The pandemic created a host of immediate challenges, but the key to long-term economic recovery is teaching North Carolina’s children to read. That’s according to state lawmakers who recently passed a new “science of reading” bill and a group of CEOs who gathered recently to support that strategy. The unlikely source of inspiration? Mississippi.