Math performance has slightly rebounded since the COVID-19 virus closed schools but reading performance hasn't, according to new National Assessment of Educational Progress data released Wednesday.

Impacts from statewide public school closures during the COVID-19 era are still being felt, North Carolina’s new Democratic superintendent at the Department of Public Instruction says.

Math performance in North Carolina has slightly improved since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling, but reading scores remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to new data released Wednesday by the U.

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.

Susan Scarbro stares down a bowling lane at the distant pins. She hears a sound that breaks her focus. Was that a cough? Will her mask protect her?

President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail on his former COVID adviser Dr Anthony Fauci, despite Dr Fauci facing regular threats to his life.

Dr Meg Schaeffer, an epidemiologist at the SAS Institute, told AFP that “misinformation around Covid-19” was driving down overall vaccination rates in the US, including for long-conquered measles. “The result is hundreds of cases of measles in kids, half of whom are hospitalised – that’s something we never used to see in the US,” she said.

The Nation’s Report Card for 2024, released today, revealed continued declines in reading scores among U.S. students, exacerbating a trend that began even

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President Trump is set to deliver remarks Friday in hurricane-hit western North Carolina, after ripping the Biden administration’s handling of the disaster throughout the final stretch of his