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Amira Learning raises $11M to put its AI-powered literacy tutor in post-COVID classrooms

TechCrunch

In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. bringing fairly conventional edtech software into elementary school classrooms at scale. The $11 million in funding comes at what could be a hockey-stick moment for Amira’s adoption. We’d be out of business in a nanosecond.”).

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, well-funded organizations are already leveraging AI to increase efficiency and reduce burnout, while smaller nonprofitsoften serving the most marginalized communitiesare being left behind. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. Build AI literacy.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Funding Priority: Education. Global Fund For Children. Daniels Fund.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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The kids are not alright. Here’s how philanthropy can help  

Candid

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. For example, funding more school buses can help get kids to school every day.

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Doyobi, a Singapore-based edtech startup focused on teachers, gets $2.8M seed

TechCrunch

million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Curiosity, imagination and empathy are just as important as literacy and numeracy skills,” he said. Teachers play an outsize role in shaping learning outcomes, yet most edtech innovations take the teacher in the classroom completely out of the picture.”. Series A.