Over 40 members of the North Carolina Volunteers in Public School (NC VIPS) recently gathered for an end-of-school-year ...

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Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...