The Juice
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Our take (not a Learning Standard rating). This label applies to learning-science judgments throughout this overview.
Our take (not a Learning Standard rating)
The Juice builds nonfiction reading comprehension through daily, level-adapted articles that connect to current events. While it provides consistent retrieval practice via state-standard quizzes, we have not yet evaluated its efficacy data to confirm mastery-based progression. It excels at engaging students with real-world content but lacks deeper, long-form reading practice.
Pros
- Adjusts text complexity automatically to match individual student reading levels, preventing cognitive overload.
- Uses daily low-stakes quizzing to enforce retrieval practice and assess comprehension of nonfiction texts.
- Integrates cross-curricular subjects like science and social studies to build broad background knowledge crucial for literacy.
- Provides immediate data tracking for teachers to monitor standards-based skill progression over time.
Cons
- Focuses exclusively on short-form articles, neglecting the stamina required for reading long-form texts.
- Relies heavily on multiple-choice questions rather than free-recall or constructed responses, limiting deeper critical thinking assessment.
- Requires a paid subscription with tiered class sizes, making it less accessible for individual at-home learners.
What Do We Know About The Juice?
The Juice effectively builds nonfiction reading comprehension for middle and high schoolers through daily, leveled articles, though its reliance on short texts means it should supplement rather than replace longer reading assignments. Your child will receive a daily mix of current events articles covering science, humanities, and politics. The platform adapts the Lexile level of these articles to match your child's current reading ability, which helps prevent frustration and cognitive overload. After reading, your child completes short assessments designed around state standards. This immediate retrieval practice helps solidify their understanding of the text and builds foundational literacy skills. Because the content updates daily, it creates a habit of reading and keeps students engaged with real-world issues. However, the questions are primarily multiple-choice, which assesses recognition rather than the deeper recall required by open-ended questions. Parents should know that The Juice requires a paid subscription and is primarily built for classroom environments, though small class options exist. While it provides excellent exposure to broad vocabulary and diverse topics, your child will still need separate practice with full-length books to develop sustained reading stamina.
How Does The Juice Work?
The Juice uses personalized, mastery-based progression by delivering daily current events articles tailored to individual reading levels, followed by standards-aligned comprehension checks. Students log in daily to find a curated dashboard of short, nonfiction texts covering cross-curricular topics like STEM, politics, and culture. The platform utilizes an adaptive engine that adjusts the vocabulary and sentence complexity of the articles based on the student's past performance. This ensures the reading material remains within the student's zone of proximal development. After consuming the content, students complete brief quizzes that test specific comprehension skills such as identifying the main idea, understanding vocabulary in context, and making inferences. This mechanism employs immediate retrieval practice. Teachers and administrators access a backend dashboard that aggregates this quiz data, mapping student performance directly to state nonfiction reading standards. This allows educators to identify specific skill gaps and intervene appropriately. The constant cycle of reading, testing, and adjusting creates a structured daily literacy routine.
Strengths and tradeoffs of The Juice
The biggest strength of The Juice is its ability to build background knowledge through accessible, differentiated daily content, while its biggest weakness is the lack of long-form reading practice. Strong reading comprehension relies heavily on background knowledge, and The Juice excels by exposing students to diverse, cross-curricular topics every day. By adjusting the Lexile level of the same news story, the app ensures that struggling readers can access the same conceptual knowledge as their advanced peers without experiencing cognitive overload. The inclusion of daily, low-stakes quizzes effectively uses retrieval practice to strengthen memory and track standards-based competencies over time. However, the platform has clear limitations. Because all texts are short-form articles, students do not get to practice sustained attention or build the reading stamina required for complex literature or rigorous academic texts. Furthermore, the assessment model relies heavily on multiple-choice questions. While efficient for data collection, multiple-choice formats often test recognition rather than true recall or synthesis. Educators should use The Juice as a supplemental tool for current events and basic comprehension, rather than a complete literacy curriculum.
Who Might Benefit From The Juice?
Best for middle and high school educators who want a structured, daily routine to improve their students' nonfiction reading comprehension and awareness of current events. The Juice targets students in grades 5 through 12, offering content mature enough for older students but scaffolded for varying reading abilities. It works exceptionally well as a daily bell-ringer activity or a supplemental tool in social studies and science classrooms where cross-curricular literacy is a goal. While parents can purchase small-tier subscriptions, the platform's robust standards-tracking dashboard is explicitly designed for classroom teachers and district administrators monitoring cohort progress.
Data Transparency
Does Not Meet Data Transparency Standard
The Juice does not meet our data transparency standard. Its privacy policy does not document basic protections, including parents' right to delete their child's data and account deletion.
18 of 35 checks passed
Evaluated September 2026
Privacy Policy →Level 1 · Basic protections
Does not sell data or target ads at students, limits sharing, and lets parents see and delete their child's data.
Not documented: parents' right to delete their child's data, account deletion
Level 2 · Parent control (meets the standard)
Families can get their data out, know who processes it, and know how long it is kept.
Not documented: data export, a data retention timeline, self-service deletion
Level 3 · Direct data access
Families or schools can pull their own data through an API, in a stated format.
Not documented: an API for retrieving their own data, a named export format
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Parent Access7/8
Does the policy mention parents specifically?
“COPPA requires us to inform parents and legal guardians (as used in this section, “ **parents**“) about our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information from children under the age of 13 (“ **children**“).”
Can parents view their child's data?
“We will support access to and correction of Student Data by the student or their authorized parent, either by assisting the School in meeting its requirements or directly when the information is collected directly from the student with student or parent consent.”
Can parents modify their child's data?
“We will support access to and correction of Student Data by the student or their authorized parent, either by assisting the School in meeting its requirements or directly when the information is collected directly from the student with student or parent consent.”
Can parents delete their child's account?
The policy does not describe any way for parents to delete a child's data or account.
Is there a dedicated Children's Privacy section?
“e. Children Under the Age of 13”
Does it reference COPPA compliance?
“Our collection and use of Student Data is governed by our contracts with the Schools, as well as by applicable student privacy laws such as The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“ **FERPA**“), The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its rules (collectively, “ **COPPA**“), and state student data privacy laws.”
Does it reference FERPA compliance?
“Our collection and use of Student Data is governed by our contracts with the Schools, as well as by applicable student privacy laws such as The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“ **FERPA**“), The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its rules (collectively, “ **COPPA**“), and state student data privacy laws.”
Is parental consent required for child accounts?
“We rely on the School to provide the Personal Information of all its Students, including those under 13 years of age, to which COPPA would not apply, or the appropriate consent for us to collect Personal Information from a student under 13 years of age for the use and benefit of the School and for no other commercial purpose, as permitted by COPPA.”
Data Portability1/5
Can users access their personal data?
“We will support access to and correction of Student Data by the student or their authorized parent, either by assisting the School in meeting its requirements or directly when the information is collected directly from the student with student or parent consent.”
Can users download/export their data?
The policy does not address downloading or exporting data.
Is there a self-service data access tool?
The policy does not describe a self-service data access tool.
Is a specific data format mentioned for export?
The policy does not mention an export format.
Is there an API for data access?
The policy does not mention an API for data access.
Data Minimization2/6
Is data collection itemized?
“In addition to the categories of information described in Section 3, when you register for an Individual Subscriber account we may collect the following information: your name, e-mail address, mobile telephone number, billing and payment information (processed through a third-party payment processor), and account preferences.”
Can the app be used without a real name?
The policy states that names are collected, including names provided by the school.
Can the app be used without an email?
The policy states that e-mail addresses are collected, including those provided by the school.
Does it state collection is limited to what is necessary?
“We only collect as much information about a child as is reasonably necessary for the child to participate in an activity, and we do not condition his or her participation on the disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary.”
Is IP address anonymized or truncated?
The policy says IP addresses are collected and does not mention anonymizing or truncating them.
Is location tracking explicitly excluded?
The policy states that device location and geolocation, including from children, may be collected.
Third-Party Protection6/7
Does it explicitly state no selling of data?
“We will not sell Student Data.”
Are third-party providers named?
“We utilize Google Analytics for our web analytics.”
Are providers contractually restricted?
“We will require that our vendors with whom Student Data is shared in order to deliver the educational service, if any, are obligated to follow these same commitments for the given Student Data.”
No-targeted-advertising commitment?
“We will not use or disclose student information collected through an educational or school service (whether Student Data or otherwise) for behavioral targeting of advertisements to students. Moreover, we do not engage in or permit behavioral targeting of advertisements.”
Is AI/ML data sharing addressed?
The policy does not address AI or machine learning data sharing.
Child-specific sharing restriction?
“We do not share, sell, rent, or transfer children’s personal information other than as described in this section.”
Cookies/tracking limited or opt-out?
“You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the Cookie button in the bottom left corner of any page of the Services. This will let you revisit the Cookie consent box and change your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately.”
Deletion & Retention0/5
Can users delete their account?
The policy does not describe any way to delete an account or personal data.
Self-service deletion mechanism?
The policy does not describe a self-service deletion mechanism.
Specific data retention timeline?
The policy only says Student Data is not kept longer than needed and gives no specific timeline.
Auto-deletion of inactive accounts?
The policy does not address automatic deletion of inactive accounts.
Post-deletion handling described?
The policy does not describe what happens to data after deletion.
Advertising2/4
Advertising model explicitly disclosed?
“We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Service.”
Free from third-party advertisements?
The policy states that third-party advertising companies may serve ads on the Service.
Children excluded from ad targeting?
“We will not use or disclose student information collected through an educational or school service (whether Student Data or otherwise) for behavioral targeting of advertisements to students.”
Ad-free option available?
The policy describes ads on the Service and does not offer an ad-free option.
What This Means
The policy review did not meet our data transparency standard. The checks above show the documented findings and unknowns. A missing statement does not establish how the app handles data in practice.
About this evaluation: Based on automated analysis of Privacy Policy against 35 policy-disclosure questions, including questions adapted from the Common Sense Privacy Program's published evaluation questions. TLS is not affiliated with Common Sense Media, and this is not a Common Sense rating. Quoted text is copied from the policy; unquoted notes are our summary. Results describe what the policy documents, not the company's actual practices. Privacy policies can change: this review reflects the version we analyzed and does not determine legal compliance.
Sources and review method
TLS combines product information and editorial analysis to explain how The Juice works, its tradeoffs, and the questions to ask before choosing it. Product features, an instructional rationale and evidence of learning outcomes are different kinds of information.
Formal Learning Standard assessment: not yet completed. Data Transparency findings are reported separately and do not establish learning effectiveness. Read our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions About The Juice
Is The Juice free?
No, The Juice is not free. It requires an annual paid subscription. The company offers different pricing tiers based on user count, including a small class option for up to five students, a large class option for up to 150 students, and custom district pricing.
Is The Juice good for elementary students?
No, The Juice is not designed for early elementary students. The platform specifically targets learners in 5th through 12th grades. The current events topics and reading comprehension standards are tailored for middle and high school cognitive development.
What does The Juice teach?
The Juice teaches nonfiction reading comprehension and builds background knowledge. Students read daily articles covering STEM, humanities, and politics, then complete quizzes that assess state-standard literacy skills like finding the main idea, vocabulary in context, and inferencing.
How does The Juice compare to Newsela?
Both platforms offer leveled current events articles for students, but they differ in daily structure. The Juice focuses on a specific daily dose of short articles with built-in, low-stakes quizzes for immediate retrieval practice. Newsela offers a broader, searchable database of texts that teachers must manually assign and structure.
Has The Learning Standard evaluated The Juice?
TLS has not yet completed a Learning Standard evaluation of how well The Juice teaches. Its privacy policy has been reviewed for Data Transparency and does not yet document the basic protections (Level 1).
Is The Juice COPPA compliant?
The reviewed privacy policy references COPPA. A policy reference alone does not establish COPPA compliance. Policy review note: The policy states that Student Data is governed by COPPA.
Is The Juice FERPA compliant?
The reviewed privacy policy references FERPA. A policy reference alone does not establish FERPA compliance. Policy review note: The policy states that Student Data is governed by FERPA.
Does The Juice have a children's privacy policy?
The reviewed policy includes a dedicated children's privacy section. Policy review note: There is a dedicated section headed Children Under the Age of 13.
Does The Juice sell student data?
The reviewed policy states that the app does not sell data. This is a policy statement; actual data practices were not verified. Policy review note: The policy commits that the company will not sell Student Data.
Can you delete your data from The Juice?
Account deletion was not documented in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not establish whether deletion is available. Policy review note: The policy does not describe any way to delete an account or personal data.
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- Pricing
- The Juice is a yearly subscription. We offer three levels of subscription: small class with 1 class with up to 5 students, a large class subscription with 5 classes with up to 150 students total, and an administrator subscription for sites that need more flexibility. For building and district implementations, please contact us for a custom quote. For current pricing, visit: https://thejuicelearning.com/pricing/
- Platforms
- Web Browser, iOS (Apple mobile), Android (Google mobile)
- Grade Levels
- 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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