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.… Read More »Edtech Evidence Challenge – Get ESSA Certified by September 2026
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… Read More »Webinar Reflection – Edtech Insiders’ The Future of AI Tutoring: Building What Actually Works
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… Read More »85% of Edtech has no research evidence. How can we change that?
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… Read More »What Does ESSA Tier III Evidence Actually Look Like?
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… Read More »EdTech Evidence Certifications
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… Read More »The Reading Intitute gets a research refresh
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… Read More »What Study Design Do You Actually Need for ESSA Tier II?
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… Read More »What is ESSA and Why Does it Matter?
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… Read More »Arizona Isn’t Just Talking About “Evidence-Based” Reading Programs — It’s Enforcing It
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… Read More »Tumbleweed Publishing Approved on Colorado’s READ Act Advisory List for Phonics & Word Study