The Chronicle of Philanthropy: How CommonLit Is Changing the Way Underprivileged Students Learn to Read With Technology 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 ... How CommonLit Is Changing the Way Underprivileged Students Learn to Read With Technology TechCrunch: CommonLit wins $3.9 million grant to help students master reading skills 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 ...

Understanding the Context

Forbes: CommonLit: This Teacher Transformed U.S. Schools, Now With Another $4 Million She's Going Global CommonLit: This Teacher Transformed U.S. Schools, Now With Another $4 Million She's Going Global 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 ...

Key Insights

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 ...