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 ...

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 ...

A few months ago, the English Department at my school found itself faced with a serious — but familiar — problem: the reading and writing that our students were doing was not relevant or rigorous ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Education technology nonprofits Quill.org and CommonLit.org have launched AIWritingCheck.org to help teachers determine whether writing was human- or ...

CommonLit, a nonprofit that offers free, online instructional materials and tracking tools to support literacy development for students in grades 5 to 12, has released new features that further ...

Jeff Scheur started NoRedInk out of frustration over the seemingly endless hours he spent grading English papers and realizing there must be a better way to help students improve their writing.

Education technology nonprofits Quill.org and CommonLit.org have launched AIWritingCheck.org to help teachers determine whether writing was human- or AI-generated text, the organizations said in a ...

When Michelle Brown, a former teacher in rural Mississippi, lacked the books she needed in her high-poverty middle school three years ago, she decided to create a resource of her own. CommonLit, the ...

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 ...