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Nov 21, 2025

Five Projects Receive Funding through College of Education’s Community-Engaged Partnerships Initiative

The NC State College of Education has awarded funding to five proposals for community-engaged partnerships. The goal of this initiative, introduced this year, is to foster new or existing connections by bringing people together to promote partnerships and advance the college’s vision to ensure access and success for all learners.

Aug 18, 2025

College of Education’s CARE Program Equips Community Members to be Successful Reading Tutors

NC State’s College of Education is creating a network of reading allies who are helping improve literacy outcomes across North Carolina through its new Community Allies for Reading Engagement (CARE).

May 27, 2025

SUPR Schools Interdisciplinary Hub Identifying Factors that Help Schools Defy Odds for Reading Achievement

Years of research have shown that there is a high correlation between reading achievement and socioeconomic status, which means that many children who attend high-poverty schools throughout North Carolina are not learning to read proficiently. The members of the Systems for Un-correlating Poverty and Reading (SUPR) in North Carolina Schools interdisciplinary hub have spent the past year examining schools that defy this trend.

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Apr 30, 2025

How the College of Education Draws on Research-based Practices to Prepare Effective Literacy Teachers

From preparing undergraduate students through coursework and field experiences to helping in-service teachers become literacy specialists, the NC State College of Education draws on research-based practices to develop literacy leaders.

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May 22, 2023

WRAL.com: 5 Ways to Help Your Child Read Better

Teaching someone to read includes some dos and don'ts. Why clapping along to words is effective -- and why context clues aren't, according to an NC State Associate Professor Jill Grifenhagen.

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May 22, 2023

WRAL.com: ‘I Didn’t Know How to Spell’: NC Teachers Take on Renewed Way to Teach Reading

Jill Grifenhagen, an associate professor in literacy education at NC State’s College of Education, talks with WRAL about how the teaching of reading.

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Jul 20, 2022

Publication and Presentation Roundup: A Look at Scholarly Work from College of Education Researchers from April-June, 2022

Faculty, staff and research associates at the NC State College of Education, including its Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, are publishing their research related to pressing educational topics in journals and sharing their work through national and international presentations. Take a look at a selection of presentations and publications from our faculty and research associates from April through June 2022.

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Apr 18, 2022

College of Education Scholars Highlight What Teachers Know About Reading Instruction, Comprehension Through Recent Publications

Faculty members in the NC State College of Education have co-authored a series of new papers that focus on what teachers know about literacy instruction and take an asset-based approach to professional development.
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Oct 7, 2021

Publication and Presentation Roundup: A Look at Scholarly Work from College of Education Researchers from June-September 2021

Faculty and research associates at the NC State College of Education, including the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, are publishing their research related to pressing topics and sharing their work through national and international presentations. Take a look at presentations and publications from our faculty and research associates from June through September 2021.
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Aug 9, 2021

‘Wolfpack WORKS Has Helped Me Grow as an Educator:’ Teachers Reflect on Impact of Literacy Initiative as it Comes to an End

As the Wolfpack WORKS literacy initiative concludes, participating teachers reflect on what they have learned and how the project has helped them and their students grow and improve.