Education research solutions for researchers
SafeInsights helps researchers conduct large-scale studies to deeply understand teaching and learning — protecting student privacy while streamlining the research process.
Partnering with leaders in teaching and learning
Research without limits. Privacy without compromise
SafeInsights is a national research infrastructure that opens new possibilities for education research at scale. Most ambitious education research questions need data from many learners, across many contexts, over time. SafeInsights makes it possible to do just that.
You can work with data representing millions of students from preK-12 through postsecondary and continuing education, comparing learning patterns across school systems, demographic groups, grade bands, institutions, and digital platforms. Instead of spending months negotiating data access agreements with individual organizations, you bring your research questions directly to where student data already lives, in secure data enclaves that never release students' personal information.
SafeInsights helps you answer bigger questions about learning, and get to them faster.
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Work with rich datasets representing many student populations, skip the lengthy data negotiations, and conduct meaningful research on an unprecedented scale.
Why researchers choose SafeInsights
How the process works
SafeInsights connects you with data from educational institutions, educational apps, and education agencies across the country — all through a standardized, privacy-preserving research workflow that eliminates traditional barriers to large-scale education research.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Join the Beta waitlist, then explore available datasets
Browse data sources from school districts, universities, edtech platforms, and statewide longitudinal data systems. Each Data Partner specifies what data is available, what research questions they're interested in supporting, and their study approval criteria.
Step 2: Propose your study
Submit your research proposal via SafeInsights to the Data Partners whose datasets match your research needs. Clear questions, methodology, and analysis plan will help the Data Partner review and approve your study.
Step 3: Write your analysis code in a secure environment
Once approved, you work in the SafeInsights analysis coding environment to write and test code with optional AI support. You never see raw student data but work with synthetic data instead. All individual records remain protected inside the Data Partner's enclave.
Step 4: Receive aggregate results
Your code executes within the data source's secure enclave, and you receive aggregate, de-identified results. Data Partners review outputs to ensure no individual student information is revealed. You get the insights you need. Student privacy stays protected.
Step 5: Publish your findings
Your findings can directly inform teaching and learning best practices within our network and throughout the education community, helping all students have a chance to succeed.
In simple terms, SafeInsights handles the technical infrastructure, connects you with data, and creates the secure environment. As a researcher, you focus on designing studies and analyzing results — not navigating legal agreements, building custom data pipelines, or worrying about privacy compliance. We help you answer bigger research questions, faster.
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Frequently asked questions
SafeInsights uses a unique approach in which researchers never see raw student data. Instead of extracting data from educational platforms or institutions, research questions are processed within secure digital enclaves where the data already lives. This means you can study millions of students across platforms while maintaining privacy protection.