Amira Learning has launched The Story of America: Fireside, an interactive history education platform that allows students to conduct spoken interviews with historical figures. The tool grounds responses in verified primary sources from institutions like the Library of Congress, featuring figures including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Sacagawea, and Frederick Douglass. The platform addresses concerning trends in US history education. According to a 2025 Cato Institute survey, nearly two-thirds of Americans aged 18-29 cannot identify why American colonies declared independence. Only 13% of eighth graders scored proficient on the most recent NAEP US history assessment. The platform enables student-led inquiry through spoken interviews, teaches source evaluation, and includes standards-aligned writing assignments. Additional historical figures from Reconstruction, labour movements, women's suffrage, and civil rights will be added throughout 2026-2027.

Amira Learning, Carter Education Group and NorthStar Education are partnering with Jordan's Ministry of Education to launch a national AI literacy initiative aimed at improving reading outcomes for primary school students. The programme will initially target grades 4 and 7 across different regions. Students will engage with Amira's AI learning agent three to five times weekly for 10 to 15 minute sessions over 12 weeks. The initiative expects students to gain two to eight months of additional literacy improvement annually, with potential national scale-up reaching 800,000 students. Amira Learning's platform, used by over 5 million students globally, provides personalised feedback whilst giving teachers insights into student progress. The programme will include Arabic localisation and locally relevant materials aligned with Jordan's national English curriculum.

Research initiative, led by Oxford Brookes University (OBU) and using Amira, will evaluate evidence-based AI reading interventions to support students and inform national literacy policyBELFAST, Northern Ireland, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Northern Ireland Department of Education announced it will fund a national research study to evaluate the impact of AI-powered literacy interventions on reading outcomes with Amira Learning (Amira), particularly for disadvantaged pupils and those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), as part of the RAISE initiative.The study, led by Oxford Brookes University (OBU) and using Amira, will assess the effectiveness of evidence-based AI literacy tools on improving reading outcomes. The study will use a matched-pair design to identify rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to inform national literacy policy and support targeted interventions.For this study, over 15,000 participating pupils will first complete a brief 15-minute baseline assessment to evaluate their literacy skills and identify potential challenges such as dyslexia. This assessment utilizes Amira's AI-powered technology, developed from decades of research at Carnegie Mellon and validated by leading universities, which listens to students read aloud and identifies reading challenges through next-generation assessment capabilities. Over the duration of the study, pupils will engage with Amira, an AI-assisted reading tutor for frequent sessions totaling 20-40 minutes weekly for 12 months.The research methodology includes continuous monitoring and data collection to evaluate effectiveness. Teachers will receive face to face and online training from Oxford Brookes University to support teachers to interpret assessment data through detailed reports, enabling them to identify struggling readers and then implement individualized, evidence-based, targeted interventions aligned with the Science of Reading. This comprehensive approach supports Northern Ireland's ongoing shift toward evidence-based tools making a positive impact on reading outcomes while providing data-driven insights to inform both classroom practices and broader educational policy decisions.Professor Tim Vorley, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University, said, "This study gives us a chance to rigorously test how tools like Amira can support what we already know works in primary reading