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Under federal law there are four tiers of evidence, and most sales decks are quoting tier IV — the tier that means 'a logic model.'
A 2007 federal practice guide gave testing-based study strategies its strongest evidence rating, but newer classroom studies show the real gains are smaller and more subject-dependent than professional-development slides suggest.
Federal law never says a classroom app can have student data by default. A narrow exception does the work, and a wave of new state laws is now building stricter rules on top of it.
Per the Pilot-to-Purchase research on K-12 pilots, most pilots never convert — and the reasons are structural, not product-quality problems.
Districts that replace publisher courses with OER cut textbook spending sharply — but the honest accounting includes curation, printing, and the salaries behind the swap.
Emergency relief money built a tutoring industry in record time; the wind-down shows what districts keep, what evaporates, and what the next funding cliff teaches.
E-rate discounts of 20 to 90 percent pay for most of the connectivity and Wi-Fi in US schools, and its rules shape what districts can buy and when.
Title I, Part A carries no percentage cap on device and software purchases, but supplement-not-supplant rules and the Title IV-A 15 percent cap decide what actually survives an audit.
The Every Student Succeeds Act turned «evidence-based» into a purchasing requirement — and marketing language that sounds like proof but often isn't.
The first-year discount was real; so is the renewal quote, and the gap is built into how education software is priced, sold, and budgeted.