Project Grant S215G180014

This $2,083,321 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination program supports the "THE USING GENERATIVE AI FOR READING R & D CENTER" research initiative. The primary awardee, Digital Promise Global, will lead the center's work, which includes: Amira Learning, Inc. leading the platform team to develop AI-enabled reading assessment and instructional...

This federal Project Grant award of $724,148 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will support a research study to evaluate the impact of implementing the First-Grade Reading Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS FG) program in kindergarten classrooms. The study, conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in partnership with the University of Texas Rio...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading prototype for students with reading disabilities. The prototype will use cloud infrastructure and a user application to perform co-reading with students, validating reading accuracy and offering remediation for mistakes. It will allow teachers to customize lessons and monitor student progress using engaging book content. Data captured will...

This Project Grant award of $355,293 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) will support the development and evaluation of a narrative language and reading comprehension intervention called "Guided, Explicit Teaching of Oral Narratives to Improve Narrative Text Comprehension (GET ON IT!)" for emergent bilingual students with or at risk for reading disabilities in grades 2-4. The project,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading system for students with reading disabilities. This SBIR Phase II project will produce a cloud-based system that students can use at home or school to improve their oral reading through personalized feedback, customizations by teachers, and audio capture capabilities. The...

This Project Grant award of $1,272,902 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop reliable diagnostic protocols for identifying language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual learners in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop empirically-derived protocols to identify word reading difficulty (dyslexia) and...

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded Reading IS Fundamental Inc. a $384,164 Project Grant under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects (CFDA 84.215) federal grant program. The grant will support Reading IS Fundamental's Children's Literacy Initiative in California with Ready, Set, Read program, which...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded a $793,119 Project Grant to Stanford University to evaluate the impact of a widely-used, supplemental, digital reading program on elementary school literacy. The project, titled "BOOST READING EFFICACY: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF A WIDELY-USED, SUPPLEMENTAL, DIGITAL READING PROGRAM ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITERACY" (CFDA 84.305), will be conducted from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. As part of this...

This Project Grant award of $662,034 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a research study to characterize the mechanisms associated with word reading difficulties, such as developmental dyslexia. The research team at The Leland Stanford Junior University will develop an open-source online platform called the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) to collect...

This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,372,466.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The primary goal of the project is to evaluate the efficacy of an integrated intervention called Supporting Attention and Reading for Kids (SPARK) in improving reading and attention outcomes for upper elementary students (grades 3-5) with co-occurring reading and...