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How to Get Ready for Outcomes-Based Contracting
Read More →: How to Get Ready for Outcomes-Based ContractingHow to Get Ready for Outcomes-Based Contracting — LXD Research Ask most edtech companies whether they’re ready for outcomes-based contracting, and they’ll point to their efficacy study. That instinct makes sense — it’s the evidence they already have. But an efficacy study and an OBC-ready number are answering two different questions. A study usually asks…
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The Dear Colleague Letter’s Real Argument: Evidence in Education Is a Shared Responsibility
Read More →: The Dear Colleague Letter’s Real Argument: Evidence in Education Is a Shared ResponsibilityThe Dear Colleague Letter’s Real Argument: Evidence in Education Is a Shared Responsibility — LXD Research Policy & Evidence · August 2026 The Dear Colleague Letter’s Real Argument: Evidence in Education Is a Shared Responsibility On August 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education released a Dear Colleague letter…
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Outcomes-Based Contracting: Pay for Results, Not Promises
Read More →: Outcomes-Based Contracting: Pay for Results, Not PromisesWhat Is Outcomes-Based Contracting in Education? — LXD Research Every district procurement office has a version of the same story: a vendor made a confident pitch, the contract got signed, the login credentials went out — and eighteen months later, nobody can say with any confidence whether the product actually moved the needle, or whether…
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You Already Have ESSA Evidence. It’s Not Telling Your Story
Read More →: You Already Have ESSA Evidence. It’s Not Telling Your StoryYou Already Have Evidence. It’s Not Telling Your Story — LXD Research Talk to enough edtech leaders about research and a pattern emerges that has nothing to do with whether the research is any good. It’s about where it’s sitting. A study gets commissioned, gets finished, gets a PDF made of it — and then…
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I Have Research on My Program. What ESSA Level Is It?
Read More →: I Have Research on My Program. What ESSA Level Is It?The question usually arrives in an RFP, or from a state reviewer, or from a district curriculum director who has been told to document evidence for everything she buys: what ESSA level is your research? And you do have research — a pilot report, a white paper, a conference paper, a set of growth numbers…
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How Assessments Get Validated
Read More →: How Assessments Get ValidatedAn assessment is only as useful as the decision it informs — and the only way to know whether a tool informs that decision well is to test it against something independent. Validation is the unglamorous work of checking whether a screener predicts what it claims to predict, whether its cut scores sort students correctly,…
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