This edition of the Business of Giving features Michelle Brown, founder and CEO of the nonprofit CommonLit. While working with Teach for America in rural Mississippi, she realized the seventh grade ...

The Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education is set to consider a new middle school English curriculum at its meeting next month after a successful two-part pilot program, officials said.

Indian Prairie School District 204 is piloting a new middle school English curriculum that officials say is focusing more on writing, aligning better with state testing and standardizing teaching ...

Michelle Brown had a simple idea: Build a free online library of reading materials for teachers and students. Turning the idea into a nonprofit called CommonLit was not nearly as simple. She had to ...