Readability Matters Releases New Video #BeTheBestReaderYouCanBe Readability Matters’ founders Marjorie Jordan and Kathy Crowley come together to share their passion for shifting reading outcomes for adults and children. Partners Rick Treitman of Adobe, Dr. Susanne Nobles of ReadWorks, and Dr. Jenae Cohn of Cal State – Sacramento are featured. Join the ecosystem of partners…
CSR Initiative Aims for Better Reading for All Adobe is working with educators, nonprofits, and technologists to help people of all ages and abilities read better by personalizing the reading experience on digital devices. With a story about his grandchildren, prescription eyeglasses, and readability, Adobe Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Treitman launched the Adobe Readability…
Adobe shares the Liquid Mode Development Story and Results of Readability and Reading Ruler Studies An Adobe team consisting of Robert Haverty – Senior Product Manager, Document Cloud Accessibility, Matthew Hardy – Senior Engineering Manager, Document Cloud, Jamila Keba – Frontend Developer for Acrobat’s Liquid Mode, and Rick Treitman – Entrepreneur in Residence, presented…
Readability Matters Partners with the EdTech Center @ WorldEd to Present a Change Agent Article the Readability Sandbox Readability Matters is pleased to feature a fun article from The Change Agent, a magazine published for adult learners and their educators in our Readability Sandbox. Our partners at the EdTech Center @ World Education are…
New Readability Session Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE) Join Readability Matters at the national conference of the Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE) at 2:00 CDT, on March 22, 2021. The EdTech Center at World Education, Adobe, and Readability Matters will be discussing the opportunity to Tune Your Text for better digital reading.…
Join Readability Matters at SXSW EDU! Readability Matters Founders Kathy Crowley and Marjorie Jordan are excited to announce our South by Southwest EDU Readability talk with Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur in Residence at Adobe. We will discuss improving readability and cutting-edge solutions that enable readers to customize text format and optimize the reading experience for…
ReadWorks Helps Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis Our partner ReadWorks provides 1.2 million K-12 teachers and 17 million students with content, curricular supports, and digital tools designed to improve teacher instruction and student achievement in reading comprehension—all free of charge. Today, they announced their commitment “to equity in access for all students,…
Showcasing Projects with Great Promise for Future Sustainability and Impact Today President and Founder Marc Pollick released a tour of the highlights of The Giving Back Fund’s work in 2020. The Giving Back Fund is a national non-profit organization with a global reach that facilitates philanthropic giving by providing consulting, management, and administrative services…
Santa Clara University EMBA Students Collaborate with the Tech-For-Good Nonprofit Readability Matters Since 1851, Santa Clara University (SCU) has been home to generations of students committed to innovating with a mission. This year is no different as Executive MBA students from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (SCU) collaborated with the…
Creating a Go-to-Market Approach for Social Innovation Marjorie Jordan, Founder of Readability Matters, presented to the Go to Market class in the Executive MBA program at the University of Denver (DU). She shared experiences from her career at Hewlett Packard Company and explained how her work in high tech was foundational in the formation of…