Newsela

Newsela is an educational technology company serving K-12 schools and districts with instructional content, assessment, and analytics products. Its core offering provides news articles and nonfiction texts aligned to state learning standards and delivered at five different reading levels, paired with activities such as quizzes, writing prompts, and vocabulary practice (Power Words). Source texts come from publishers including the Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica, and content spans English language arts, social studies, science, and social and emotional learning, available in English and Spanish. A version targeted at younger students, Newsela Elementary, was created in response to concerns about mature content, and Newsela PRO is a paid upgrade offering additional teacher features.

The current product portfolio includes Newsela Threads & Themes (a core literacy curriculum for California), the Newsela Learning Suite, Newsela ELA, Social Studies, STEM and Writing, Balanced Assessment by Formative, and Schoolytics, a student-data analytics platform. The company also markets Luna AI, an AI teaching assistant for lesson planning, activity design, graphic organizer creation, and text differentiation, alongside AI-powered scaffolds intended to make grade-level content accessible. Newsela reports a library of more than 18,000 printable texts and videos and integrates interactive materials such as PhET Simulations and Tuva data sets. Student-facing apps are available on iOS, and sign-in is supported through Google, Clever, Microsoft, Schoology, ClassLink, and Canvas.