Since launching in 2021-22, NCEC has remained focused on its mission: ensuring that students across the state receive high-quality, relationship-based academic support from trained tutors rooted in their local communities. Over the last five years, the organization has recruited and supported nearly 1,300 tutors, serving more than 24,400 K–5 students across 32 counties.
New study shows measurable gains in early literacy
A new 2025 evaluation, "Recruitment, Training, & Support: Impacts of a District-Partnership Tutoring Model to Support Elementary Literacy Skills", from the University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab, offers compelling evidence of the program's effectiveness.
Catherine Asher and her colleagues at University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab found that, within one school year, students in kindergarten through third grade who received NC Education Corps-supported tutoring gained an additional 1.8 months of literacy growth above their classmates.
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