“There is a real opportunity to impact the quality of education in Europe, especially in refugee camps or in very high poverty areas.” “We’re seeing a significant uptick in our global users which is really exciting,” says Brown. And, in the past year, Brown has seen a 340% increase in traffic from European countries (with particular interest from the U.K., Sweden, the Netherlands, France and Spain). students, most of whom are in Europe, Canada and Australia. Impressively, CommonLit already serves over 70,000 non-U.S. This will be used by Brown to take on Europe and beyond, she says: “We want to transform life for teachers around the world and help them do what they do best, teach.”Īn example lesson on human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. To boost this mission, Brown today announces a further $4 million in funding from backers including AT&T, Teach for America, the EPIC Foundation, Arthur Rock Foundation and others (bringing Brown’s total backing to $8 million). ![]() Now we’re trying to duplicate that success abroad.” that once we had a certain threshold of usage, we could transform schools. “Our strategy was to make the adoption of our tools completely frictionless for a teacher, like Khan Academy,” Brown says, comparing her platform to the hugely successful video lesson service set up by Salman Khan. Teachers get the “super powers” they need, able to choose and set different literacy lessons from and see in real time which students most need one-to-one help while students get to study the same concept or theme as their peers, but at their level, and with the support of tools that can play text aloud or translate text into any of 13 languages. ![]() The platform now signs up 21,000 new registered users per school day, and its runaway success saw it win a grant of nearing $4 million from the Department of Education back in 2016 (a year in which Brown was also shortlisted in our Forbes Change the World Nonprofit Competition). ![]() In the years that followed CommonLit has swept the U.S.
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