Amira Learning, Inc.

The Using Generative AI for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading) will investigate how to apply AI innovations, aligned to scientific evidence about reading, to achieve strong, equitable gains for diverse elementary school students, with a specific focus on English learners (ELs). U-GAIN Reading will ask two overarching research questions: (1) How can generative AI improve reading performance for ELs and all students who are not yet reading connected text? (2) How can generative AI improve...

The Reading Together project team will develop and test the impact of a scalable, personalized program designed to tackle the intergenerational cycle of reading difficulties and substantially improve the reading abilities of young students. COVID-19 disruptions to schooling have made this need to improve the reading skills of emergent readers even more urgent. Reading Together (1) enables parents or other primary caregivers of kindergarten-aged children to help their emerging readers develop...