CommonLit
For Developing Culturally Responsive Texts And Tools For Differentiated Learning
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/19/2020
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
CommonLit is dedicated to ensuring that every student graduates with reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills to be successful in college and beyond. To achieve its mission, the organization operates a free online reading program that serves over 10 million students. Through this grant, CommonLit will expand its library of openly licensed short stories and informational articles featuring protagonists of color, written by authors of color and others representing diverse viewpoints. In doing so, CommonLit will promote a more diverse set of voices in the open education landscape, while also expanding the corpus of high-quality OER in circulation. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
commonlit.org
Address
660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 302, Washington, DC, 20003, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
CommonLit is dedicated to ensuring that every student graduates with the reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills needed to be successful in college and beyond. To achieve its mission, the organization operates a free online reading program that has grown to serve over 22 million students. Third-party research has proven CommonLit’s effectiveness, especially for students experiencing poverty and students with disabilities. The organization is rapidly scaling the adoption of its new flagship program, CommonLit 360, the first openly licensed and free digital English language arts curriculum in the nation. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for developing culturally responsive texts and tools for differentiated learning
CommonLit is dedicated to ensuring that every student graduates with reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills to be successful in college and beyond. To achieve its mission, the organization operates a free online reading program that serves over 10 million students. Through this grant, CommonLit will expand its library of openly licensed short stories and informational articles featuring protagonists of color, written by authors of color and others representing diverse viewpoints. In doing so, CommonLit will promote a more diverse set of voices in the open education landscape, while also expanding the corpus of high-quality OER in circulation. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for open licensing and open policy development
CommonLit is dedicated to ensuring that every student graduates with reading, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills to be successful in college and beyond. To achieve its mission, the organization operates a free online reading program that serves over 10 million students. Through this grant, CommonLit will expand its library of openly licensed short stories and informational articles featuring protagonists of color, written by authors of color and others representing diverse viewpoints. In doing so, CommonLit will promote a more diverse set of voices in the open education landscape, while also expanding the corpus of high-quality OER in circulation. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
