Reading levels continue to be a concern at Charleston County School District (CCSD). Roughly half of students K-8 are reading below grade level, according to the South Carolina Department of Education ...

Since January 2018, Beanstack’s annual Winter Reading Challenge has encouraged libraries and schools across the country to celebrate the new year with reading. In the last five years, the challenge ...

The creators of Beanstack, an innovative software program for managing reading initiatives, recently teamed up with investor and ABC-TV’s Shark Tank judge Mark Cuban to sponsor the Beanstack Winter ...

Beanstack secures backing from Achieve Partners to advance its mission of closing literacy gaps and motivating communities to read more, together NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Beanstack, a ...

The out-of-left-field attack on an online reading platform by Florida’s new education commissioner, Anastasios Kamoutsas, reads like bad fiction. In a July 23 letter, Kamoutsas issued a veiled threat ...

For the third year in a row, Random House Children’s Books and Penguin Young Readers will sponsor the Beanstack Winter Reading Challenge, set to kick off in schools and public libraries nationwide on ...

Black-owned edtech company Beanstack has secured another investment from Mark Cuban. The platform was launched in 2013 by Felix Brandon Lloyd (CEO) and Jordan Lloyd Booke, a husband-and-wife duo with ...

In 2021, students entered nearby DeLand (Fla.) Regional Library (DRL) to hunt for a secret word. The activity was part of a summer reading challenge in collaboration between DRL and Volusia County ...