De-Risk School Recruitment Before Your Study Starts Most edtech companies that come to us for a Real-Time or Look Back study have already done the hard internal work. They’ve built… Read More »Why Your Right Study Partner Might Already Be a Customer – How to Recruit
A Child’s First Language Isn’t a Barrier to Literacy — It’s a Foundation | LXD Research New Peer-Reviewed Study · Education Sciences, September 2026 A Child’s First Language Isn’t a… Read More »Bilingual Decodable Texts Boost Literacy, Study Finds
Evidence Is Access to a Funding Stream, Not a Credential — LXD Research Most edtech companies think about evidence the way they think about a certification — something to earn… Read More »Evidence Is Access to a Funding Stream, Not Just a Credential
How 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… Read More »How to Get Ready for Outcomes-Based Contracting
The 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… Read More »The Dear Colleague Letter’s Real Argument: Evidence in Education Is a Shared Responsibility
What 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,… Read More »Outcomes-Based Contracting: Pay for Results, Not Promises
You 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… Read More »You Already Have ESSA Evidence. It’s Not Telling Your Story
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… Read More »I Have Research on My Program. What ESSA Level Is It?
An 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… Read More »How Assessments Get Validated
Assessment is one of those words in education that can mean almost anything — a quick exit ticket at the end of class, a state standardized test, a reading screener… Read More »Types of Assessments in Education and Edtech