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"K-3 Students Continue to Make Strides in Foundational Literacy Skills"
"As the science of reading reaches full implementation in North Carolina, new data presented to the State Board of Education today shows that K-3 students are making significant progress in being on track and narrowing the racial achievement gap when it comes to literacy.
Beginning-of-year data from the DIBELS 8 (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) assessment shows that North Carolina students outperformed their peers on a national level in grades 1-3, while grades K-3 continue to show steady improvement.
This year marks the first time that the percentage of North Carolina’s Black and American Indian/Alaska Native students who are on track in reading has surpassed the national benchmark. Within North Carolina, the achievement gap has narrowed between those groups and their White and Asian peers.
While North Carolina kindergarteners start school in the fall behind others in the nation, as shown in beginning-of-year data from the last three years, they are rising above those peers after a year or two of instruction using the newly implemented methods based on the science of reading."
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