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As seen in Instructure’s 2026 Evidence Report Where does your product stand on the evidence spectrum? Instructure and InnovateEDU just tracked the 150 most-used K-12 technologies in classrooms this fall. Only 40% of purpose-built edtech has any ESSA evidence at all — meaning 6 in 10 products used by millions of students can’t point to…

Co-Authored by Talia Patt Ed.M. and Rachel Schechter, Ph.D. The Future of AI Tutoring: Building What Actually Works — LXD Research As AI tutoring continues to gain traction, the conversation has started to shift from what’s possible to what actually works for learning. That’s a meaningful transition — and it’s one worth taking seriously. In…

85% of EdTech Products Have No Research Evidence — LXD Research Evidence for edtech products exists — but it lives in a narrow, well-funded sliver of the market. Across the 2,135 products indexed by ISTE, only 15% hold any evidence-based certification. Narrow the lens to the ~100 most-used tools in U.S. K–12 schools, tracked annually…

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…

EdTech Evidence Certifications: What They Are and How Many Products Have Them — LXD Research When a school district is trying to decide whether an edtech product actually works, two questions tend to matter more than any others. Who conducted the research, and who has reviewed it? If the answer to both is “the company…

When Research Already Exists but No One Can Find It — LXD Research Client Case Study · The Reading Institute There’s a version of this problem that’s rarer than it sounds: an organization with genuinely strong research evidence — peer-reviewed, published, spanning two decades — that still can’t use it competitively. The evidence exists. The…