By Dian Schaffhauser
04/09/21
Education technology
company Renaissance
has acquired Lalilo,
an early literacy company that was started in Paris in 2016 by three
graduates of École Polytechnique with a goal of ending illiteracy.
Terms of the deal were not made public.
Lalilo produces a
web-based literacy app for K-2 teachers and students. The program
offers visually engaging activities to help students
develop their phonological and phonemic awareness, letter and word
recognition, comprehension and fluency, vocabulary, writing and
social literacy. Teachers get data tracking and planning tools. The
basic service is free for teachers; a premium edition adds extra
features, including additional data reporting functionality.