Insights
The guidance is changing faster than most schools can track, and most of what gets written about it is either vendor marketing or panic. We read the primary sources: state guidance, district policy, vendor terms, the actual research. Then we write down what we find.
Four K-12 edtech reports, read as one document. They describe a chain of custody for a single question — is this tool safe, and does it work? — and the chain loses something at every handoff.
Two 2025 reports survey opposite ends of the same purchase order. One says districts are good at evaluating impact. The other shows what they actually decide on. Cost per user wins, because it is the only number that always exists.
Two 2025–26 reports, read side by side, describe the same edtech market from opposite ends. The gap between them is where most student data actually lives.