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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six years ago, Michelle Brown met with a major funder of her literacy nonprofit. She’d been counting on them to renew their grant, and there was no reason they shouldn’t. But as the meeting began, she ...

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 ...

As concerns rise about students’ use of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to complete schoolwork, a pair of education nonprofits have created a free system to help teachers detect ...

Ed Ludlow, Journalist and Co-Host of Bloomberg Technology, shares his experience mentoring with Bloomberg’s skills-based volunteering partnership with Fast Forward. Ed Ludlow, Journalist and Co-Host ...

The latest version of ChatGPT has only been around for a few months. But Aaron Romoslawski, the assistant principal at a Michigan high school, has already seen a handful of students trying to pass off ...