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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…

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…

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…