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LightSail featured as literacy tool of choice for Academy High School

Posted on 22.Aug.16 in News

Intellectual Virtues Academy (IVA), a free, public charter middle school in Long Beach, CA, has expanded to include a new high school, which will receive its first class of 9th graders… Read more

Digital Reading Platforms Offer New Opportunities for Educators

Posted on 1.Aug.16 in Partner Success

by Mitch Center, former Assistant Superintendent for Newark Public Schools Since the time of one-room schoolhouses, and likely before that, educators at all levels have been hard pressed to know… Read more

FORBES: LightSail featured as part of Unreasonable Group’s Project Literacy Lab

Posted on 26.Jul.16 in News

Unreasonable Group recently launched its latest program: Project Literacy Lab, a new, two-week accelerator aimed at ending global illiteracy, run in partnership with Pearson. The accelerator is part of Unreasonable… Read more

EDTECH DIGEST: “Accelerating Literacy” with LightSail CEO Gideon Stein

Posted on 12.Jul.16 in News

EdTech Digest interviewed LightSail CEO Gideon Stein in a recent article, “Accelerating Literacy,” where he talked about the mission behind LightSail, the catalysts for the company’s growth and this year’s… Read more

ESCHOOLNEWS: LightSail named as one of ‘6 tools for real formative assessment’

Posted on 5.Jul.16 in News, LightSail in the News

eSchool News recently highlighted the importance of formative assessments in today’s educational policy, with legislation focusing on student outcomes. “Technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground,” states the article,… Read more

EDUCATION DIVE: LightSail adaptive reading program combats summer slide

Posted on 16.Jun.16 in News

In a recent article, Education Dive highlighted the “significant positive outcomes” of the research study done by Johns Hopkins University on LightSail’s impact on student reading growth. The article notes that students who read… Read more

Fostering 21st Century Readers

Posted on 13.Jun.16 in Literacy Strategies

by Bonnie D. Houck, Ed.D. What does it mean to be a reader in the 21st century? Many studies indicate that reading print offers increased metacognition and comprehension over online reading.… Read more

EDSURGE: Independent Research confirms LightSail reverses “summer brain slump”

Posted on 1.Jun.16 in News

EdSurge featured LightSail and the Johns Hopkins research study on its SummerSail program in an article on combating summer slide. “New York City-based LightSail says its summer reading program this… Read more

Independent Research Confirms: LightSail Reversed Summer Slide

Posted on 23.May.16 in News

Students Reverse Summer Slide with LightSail’s “SummerSail” Program Independent academic research of New York City middle school students shows LightSail’s adaptive literacy platform helps sustain, grow reading performance in summer months… Read more

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