This edition of the Business of Giving features Michelle Brown, founder and CEO of the nonprofit CommonLit. While working with Teach for America in rural Mississippi, she realized the seventh grade ...

Michelle Brown was teaching students from low-income backgrounds at a small rural school in Mississippi when she reached breaking point. There was simply no way she could cater to all their needs as ...

A tech nonprofit called CommonLit won a $3.89 million grant from the Department of Education to develop software and content that helps students read well enough to graduate from high school and ...

TOO COOL (PERFECT FOR SCHOOL): We've got our favorite edtech teacher and administrator tools for the week right here, as highlighted in our Instruct newsletter. By the way--got a favorite S’Cool Tool ...

1776-based CommonLit, a nonprofit that provides Common Core-aligned educational texts for students, has been accepted into the 2016 class of AT&T’s Aspire Accelerator. CommonLit joins five other ...

When I first started my organization, CommonLit, a free platform for literacy resources and progress tracking tools for grades 5-12, one of the most important decisions I had to make was whether to ...

For the education space, technology is an equalizer. It allows teachers, students, and parents to access resources they otherwise might not have access to. Michelle Brown and Sarah Robertson, founders ...

TOO COOL (PERFECT FOR SCHOOL): We've got our favorite edtech teacher and administrator tools for the week right here, as highlighted in our Instruct newsletter. By the way--got a favorite S’Cool Tool ...

Indian Prairie School District 204 is piloting a new middle school English curriculum that officials say is focusing more on writing, aligning better with state testing and standardizing teaching ...

A new English curriculum is coming to Indian Prairie School District 204 middle schools next year. The District 204 board on Jan. 13 officially approved changes to the middle school English Language ...