Project Grant U351D180025

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded $2.47 million to Smart Reading under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy federal grant program (CFDA 84.215) to support the SMART READING statewide program. The program will utilize trained volunteers to provide weekly reading sessions to pre-K through 3rd grade students through August 2023. The funding will support adult mentors supporting early literacy by developing and improving literacy skills for young...

The Reading Is Fundamental's Children's Literacy Initiative in Mississippi will provide $384,164 in literacy programs and services through a Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant funding is provided through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects programs (CFDA 84.215). As the awardee, Reading Is Fundamental Inc. will...

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 $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...

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to Reading IS Fundamental Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on children's literacy. The grant funding will support Reading IS Fundamental's Children's Literacy Initiative in Mississippi over a one-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. The grant is provided under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy federal grant program (CFDA #84.215), which supports high-quality...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $4,188,260 Project Grant under the Comprehensive Literacy Development (CFDA 84.371) program to the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) to implement the "READ AND LEAD MARYLAND" project. The goal of this one-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, is to advance literacy skills, including pre-literacy, reading, and writing, for students from birth through grade 12...

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 Reading IS Fundamental's Children's Literacy Initiative in Connecticut will receive $384,164 from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education 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. Reading IS Fundamental Inc. will implement literacy programs for children and students...

The City of Milwaukee has been awarded a $241,250 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education 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) program. The award, titled "MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY: READY TO READ", will support the development and improvement of literacy...

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...