Articles for Educators

You know about the Every Student Succeeds Act. You know that there are tiers of evidence involved. What are they? What are they referring to? How do I ask a… Read More »ESSA Levels of Evidence Explained

This is a question that comes up all of the time. What does it mean if a product says it’s research-based? And what is different about a product that is… Read More »What is the difference between research-based and evidence-based?

What is it, and how do we use it? Guest co-author: Apoorva Shivaram There are over 1,400 tools used to assist students with their learning in any given school (this… Read More »Save Time with this Evidence-based Research Review Framework

There are over 8,000 edtech products used in K-12 schools (LearnPlatform Top 40 Report, 2021) and fewer than 1% have earned the Digital Promise Research-Based Design Product Certification since 2020.… Read More »LXD Research Supports 95 Percent Group Digital Promise Certification

Parents, teachers, and experts widely agree that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted student learning. But exactly how much did student achievement decline? You may have seen or heard some of… Read More »Five Things You Should Know about the NAEP Results (But May Have Missed)

LXD Research provides EdVestors with an innovative research deliverable Originally published on the EdVestors’ Blog Attendance! Teacher Retention! Test Scores! Community Partnerships! When EdVestors awarded the James Otis Elementary School… Read More »Academic Family Engagement Toolkit

Why “Walk-to-Intervention” Deserves Another Look — LXD Research “Push in” and “pull out” are the two reading intervention models that get the most attention, and each has real limitations. A… Read More »A “Walk-to-Read” Reboot?

Free product guides for evaluating edtech tools are now available from ISTE.  How do you distinguish between edtech products that are built well vs. those that are not? Which products… Read More »Making Decisions about Digital Curriculum, Assessments, and Platforms

Educators: Would you rather use an intervention program that sometimes helps students a great deal but requires an additional 90 minutes a week or one that helps students improve their… Read More »A Beginner’s Guide to Reading Research Articles

Co-written by Nathaniel Hansford, teacher and author of The Scientific Principles of Teaching and Pedogogynongrata.com and Rachel Schechter, PhD, head of LXD Research and former research leader at HMH and… Read More »Five Steps to Finding Research Studies