This brief focuses on the impacts of Summer 2021 school extension programs on students who were enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in the 2020-21 academic year and remained enrolled in North Carolina public high schools in the 2021-22 academic year.

This brief focuses on North Carolina's summer school extension program.

This toolkit provides school leaders with relevant information and data around ESSER expenditures and student outcomes.

This brief examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educator attrition and mobility in North Carolina and highlights a sharp increase in movement between Fall 2020 and Fall 2022.

In this brief, an analysis is conducted on the patterns of allocation, spending, and intended investments of money provided to school districts in North Carolina by the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.

This brief provides updated statewide data on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on North Carolina student outcomes in the 2021-2022 school year.

This report details the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on test scores, absences, course grades, and grade retention as well as how pandemic effects are distributed across students. 

This journal article from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) investigates the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty.

This journal article from the American Educational Research Association examines how student reading and math achievement at the beginning of the school year has changed across the course of the COVID-19 pandemic thus far.

This brief from the Center for School and Student Progress discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected student reading and math outcomes based on NWEA’s ongoing research.