Rachel Schechter, PhD

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

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… Read More »Mississippi Is Extending Its Literacy Playbook to Middle Grades — and Evidence Requirements Come with It