Some NC Leaders Say Mississippi's Model Charts The Way To Helping Kids Read
A Huntersville Elementary student works on a reading lesson. 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. They're pinning their hopes on what some might consider an unlikely source of inspiration: Mississippi. Earlier this month, Republicans and Democrats united to pass a bill that mandates a new approach to reading. Soon afterward, a...
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