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 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.

The NC Center for the Workforce on Health leads workshops focused on taking action to support the state’s looming crisis in direct care.

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

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.

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?

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is what you need to know.

President Donald Trump said on Friday Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former top health official who has faced threats since leading the country's COVID-19 response, should hire his own security, the latest former U.

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

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.

President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic