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Why ESSA Tier III Is the Evidence Standard Most EdTech Buyers Actually Want — LXD Research Most edtech companies assume the goal is always to climb as high as possible on the ESSA evidence ladder — that Tier I is the destination and everything else is a stepping stone. That framing misses something important. For…

What Study Design Do You Actually Need for ESSA Tier II? — LXD Research If you’ve started researching ESSA evidence requirements, you’ve probably encountered terms like “quasi-experimental design” and “randomized controlled trial” within the first few paragraphs — and then closed the tab. The language used to describe educational research methodology can feel like it…

What Is ESSA and Why Does It Matter for EdTech? — LXD Research A Brief History From No Child Left Behind to ESSA The Every Student Succeeds Act was signed into law in December 2015, replacing No Child Left Behind — the sweeping federal education law that had defined public schooling since 2002. The transition…

In education, the phrase “research-based” gets used a lot. But what does it actually mean? Arizona provides one of the clearest and most rigorous answers — see our presentation below for all the details! Under its Move On When Reading (MOWR) law, the Arizona Department of Education doesn’t just encourage evidence-based literacy programs. It requires…

Congratulations to Tumbleweed Publishing! Their structured literacy decodable readers have been approved as a supplemental provider on the Colorado READ Act Advisory List of Instructional Programming for Phonics and Word Study in Grades 2 and 3. This is a meaningful milestone — and one that reflects what happens when intentional, research-based product design meets a…

Mississippi’s landmark 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act became one of the most celebrated education reforms in the country, helping the state climb from 49th to 21st in fourth-grade reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Now, the state is turning its attention to the grades that come next. Senate Bill 2487, which passed the…