NoRedInk
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| Developer(s) | NoRedInk Corporation |
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| Written in | Ruby, Elm, CoffeeScript, Haskell[1] |
| Platform | Web application |
| Type | Writing education |
| License | Commercial software |
| Website | noredink |
NoRedInk (stylized as noredink) is an online web-based writing education platform.
History
NoRedInk was founded by Jeff Scheur, a high school English teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago.[2] After documenting years of misconceptions that popped up in his students' writing and developing a taxonomy to address them over several years, Scheur posted an advertisement on Craigslist asking for an engineer to help him build an educational platform.[3] Scheur's students voted on the name "NoRedInk."[3]
In February of 2012, Scheur shared the first version of NoRedInk with some colleagues at an Illinois conference. The application grew to 15,000 users in its first two months.[3] In September 2012, NoRedInk won the Citi Innovation Challenge, hosted by NBC, netting the company $75,000 in prize money.[4] In January 2013, NoRedInk raised $2 million from a series of investors, including Google Ventures.
References
- ^ "NoRedInk/Haskell-libraries". GitHub. 27 March 2022.
- ^ Sarno, Aaron (26 October 2012). "NoRedInk Helps Improve Grammar and Writing Skills". PR News. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ a b c Taub, Alexander (19 December 2013). "NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 100% Of The PK School System Using". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ Mader, Jackie (26 September 2012). "Education Nation: Revived Support For Grammar Instruction". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2016.