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What 'evidence-based' actually means when an edtech vendor says it
Under federal law there are four tiers of evidence, and most sales decks are quoting tier IV — the tier that means 'a logic model.'
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Business News covers the commercial side of learning technology: vendor funding and results, pricing changes, mergers, procurement rules, and the budget cycles determining when schools can buy anything. Reporting connects corporate decisions to classroom availability. For administrators, suppliers and analysts following where education money moves.
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Retrieval practice works, but not as much as trainers claim
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.
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Why FERPA's vendor exception decides what ed-tech can access
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.