
How Districts Measure Learning Gains From Literacy Software: What the Data Actually Shows
Vendor dashboards often report growth. District leaders need a way to tell whether the software caused it.
EdTech assesses learning platforms, tutoring software, assessment systems and AI tools against published research and classroom use. Each review states licensing cost, data practices and the evidence supporting a vendor's outcome claims. Intended for teachers, procurement staff and independent learners deciding what deserves a line in a budget.
EdTech assesses learning platforms, tutoring software, assessment systems and AI tools against published research and classroom use. Each review states licensing cost, data practices and the evidence supporting a vendor's outcome claims. Intended for teachers, procurement staff and independent learners deciding what deserves a line in a budget.

Vendor dashboards often report growth. District leaders need a way to tell whether the software caused it.

Credentials open some doors in education technology, but the field hires for many roles a diploma never covers.

Separating the AI classroom tools likely to last from the ones built for a sales cycle.

Portfolios, skills, and channels that actually move candidates from application to interview.

A rule meant to curb fraud in the $5.2 billion school-internet program is drawing warnings that small and rural districts will carry the heaviest new paperwork load.

A due-diligence guide: the questions about evidence, data, accuracy, and pedagogy districts should put to every AI tutoring vendor.

Free, openly licensed curricula can cut textbook costs — if districts apply the same quality bar they use for commercial materials.

Professional development, not the software itself, decides whether a new platform reaches classrooms — here is what working rollout training looks like.

E-Rate wired the schools — the remaining gap is at home. What districts are doing about offline access, from hotspots to homework-free downloads.

A clause-by-clause guide to the contract terms — data ownership, auto-renewal, termination traps — that cost districts money and control.