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10 Favorite Online Teaching Tools Used by Educators This Year
"Quill is a free and amazing site where students can learn grammar in a nonpainful way. I use it with my English-language-learner classes, but students of all English-proficiency levels would find it helpful. I love that after periodic “diagnostics,” it recommends which exercises students should move onto for additional practice."
The Nonprofits Leading the A.I. Revolution
"Quill's interactive writing exercises, which come with personalized feedback, have been an unexpected hit in the classroom. Estevez ran through 15,000 stickers rewarding each completed lesson in his first year using Quill. Parents would call, amazed that their kids were at home, chatting with friends on the phone as they plowed through lessons like a video game."
This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids to be Better Writers
"Every time students take a writing exercise on Quill.org—a writing instruction platform for schools—their responses are logged by computers and analyzed for patterns… Instead of teachers having to correct errors late at night with a red pen, the system does it automatically, suggesting corrections and concepts on its own."
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TechCrunch | March 28, 2024
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BetterLesson | April 12, 2019
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Using Quill in the Classroom
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Quill.org: Free Interactive Writing and Grammar Activities for K-12
The Ed Tech Roundup | November 15, 2018
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Fast Company | September 07, 2017
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ISTE | August 30, 2017
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Vox Recode | June 22, 2017
Quill Connect Helps Students Understand Sentence Structure
Free Technology for Teachers | February 24, 2017
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Press Releases
Quill.org and aiEDU Expand AI Literacy Curricula in K-12 Classrooms, Powered by a $400,000 Grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
June 17, 2025
Quill.org Becomes a “Non-profit Unicorn,” Generating $1 Billion in Social Impact
June 09, 2025
Quill.org and aiEDU announce partnership to provide high-quality AI curricular resources to millions of students
June 10, 2024
Quill.org selected for the Aspen Digital 2023 Reporting on AI Hall of Fame
March 26, 2024
Quill.org announces new “AI for Society” instructional offering with backing from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Reid Hoffman, The Solid Foundation, and NewSchools Venture Fund
February 22, 2024
Quill MicroGrant 2023
August 23, 2023
Quill.org Named One of the Top Four Nonprofit Literacy Tools for High School Students in the United States - Awarded $2.2m Overdeck Family Foundation Grant to Advance AI-Powered Writing Tools for Low-Income Students
April 04, 2023
Quill.org and CommonLit Launch AI Writing Check Site to Help Teachers Identify AI-Generated Writing
January 25, 2023
Quill Used By More Than One Million Low-Income Students in 2020 and Adds Nonprofit & Education Leaders to Board
January 13, 2021
Quill.org Awarded Google AI Impact Grant to Develop Open-Source Writing Tools for Low-Income Students
May 07, 2019
Quill.org Helps More Than One Million Students and is Awarded Grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
December 21, 2018
Quill.org Reaches One Million Students Impacted
August 31, 2018
Quill is Open Sourcing NLP Tools To Aid Student Writing
March 06, 2018
Quill.org Receives a $1 Million Donation from the Pineapple Fund to Teach Critical Thinking to 10 Million Students
March 05, 2018
Quill.org Cofounder Awarded “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” Award by Goldman Sachs
March 05, 2018
Fast Company Selects Quill.org as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2018
March 02, 2018
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April 01, 2016
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