# Newsela

> Newsela is a New York-based K-12 education technology company that turns current events, primary sources, fiction, video and other authentic material into standards-aligned lessons that can be adjusted for different readers. Its paid school and district subscriptions now span ELA, social studies, STEM and writing, while acquisitions including Formative, Generation Genius and Schoolytics extend the platform into real-time assessment, educational video and student-data analytics.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Matthew Gross (Co-founder and former CEO), Dan Cogan-Drew (Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 530 employees in supplied company data; LinkedIn lists a 201-500 employee range.
- **Products:** Newsela Learning Suite, Newsela ELA, Newsela Social Studies, Newsela STEM, Newsela Writing
- **Notable:** Reached a $1 billion valuation after a $100 million Series D in February 2021., Company-reported reach of 47 million learners, 4 million teachers and use in roughly 90% of U.S. schools., Built a library of more than 18,000 differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts.

## Products & services

- **Newsela Learning Suite** — A cross-curricular platform with more than 18,000 differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, standards alignment, assignments, scaffolds and reporting across ELA, social studies, STEM and writing.
- **Newsela ELA** — Knowledge-rich literacy instruction built from differentiated texts, novel studies, activities and multimedia resources.
- **Newsela Social Studies** — Standards-aligned primary sources, biographies, maps and current-events materials designed to build inquiry and historical thinking.
- **Newsela STEM** — A multimodal science and math toolkit combining text, phenomena-based investigations, PhET simulations and Generation Genius video lessons.
- **Newsela Writing** — Cross-curricular writing assignments with AI-powered, real-time feedback aligned to rubrics and reporting on student performance.
- **Balanced Assessment by Formative** — Classroom and district assessment software with more than 20 technology-enhanced item types, live responses, common assessments and reporting.
- **Schoolytics** — An analytics and AI platform that brings academic, behavioral and engagement data together for monitoring, intervention and district workflows.
- **Luna** — An AI teaching assistant that supports planning, scaffolding, translation, question creation, worksheet digitization and rubric-aligned feedback across Newsela products.
- **Newsela Lite** — A free teacher and caregiver tier with a rotating selection of news articles at five reading levels, assignments, basic activity data and Formative integration.
- **Professional Learning** — Optional implementation support, training and professional development for subscribed schools and districts.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1 billion valuation after a $100 million Series D in February 2021.
- Company-reported reach of 47 million learners, 4 million teachers and use in roughly 90% of U.S. schools.
- Built a library of more than 18,000 differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts.
- Acquired Formative in 2023, Generation Genius in 2025 and Schoolytics in 2026.
- Newsela Writing won the 2025 CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for ELA/Writing.
- Balanced Assessment by Formative and Newsela Social Studies won 2026 CODiE Awards.
- Newsela STEM was named 2026 STEM Reading Solution of the Year by EdTech Breakthrough.
- Named to TIME's list of America's Top EdTech Companies of 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Balanced Assessment by Formative and Newsela Social Studies won 2026 CODiE Awards for formative assessment and social studies instruction.
- **2026-06** — Newsela STEM received the 2026 EdTech Breakthrough award for STEM Reading Solution of the Year.
- **2026-04** — TIME named Newsela to its list of America's Top EdTech Companies of 2026.
- **2026-03** — EveryDay Labs joined Schoolytics by Newsela, extending the company's data offering into attendance improvement.
- **2026-01** — Newsela acquired Schoolytics and announced plans to connect student analytics with Formative assessment and Newsela instruction.
- **2025-10** — Newsela launched Newsela STEM with Generation Genius and Newsela Writing won a 2025 CODiE Award.
- **2025-02** — Newsela acquired Generation Genius in a deal valued at $100 million to expand its K-8 science and math video offering.

## Links

- Website: https://newsela.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsela
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Newsela
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsela
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newsela/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newsela

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Last updated: 2026-08-13