Media
Explore the news about the Center for Education Market Dynamics. These pages link to media publications that mention CEMD's work and have published articles, op-eds, or press releases related to the organization.
EdWeek Market Brief: 3 Lessons From 17 California Districts’ More Rigorous Math Adoption
EdWeek Market Brief highlights lessons from 17 California districts taking a more rigorous, tailored approach to math curriculum adoption — insights featured in a recent…
EdWeek: Districts Using ‘High-Quality’ Reading Curricula Still Supplement With Other Materials. Why?
On August 4, 2025, EdWeek published an article citing CEMD's Executive Director, Lora Kaiser, and discussed CEMD's ELA briefs about district curriculum choices, coherence, and…
EducationWeek: Inside the Effort to Shed Light on Districts’ Curriculum Choices
Decisions about curriculum are often hyperlocal in U.S. schools. Individual districts usually have a lot of leeway to choose what materials they adopt. Teachers in…
EdSource: How California can Transform Math Education for English Learners
In California and across the country, English learners are too frequently an afterthought. Though they are one of the largest student groups — California has…
Comrade Chris: Why Your Child’s Math Book Matters
As parents, many of us know too little about how districts choose the materials our kids need to succeed.
Instruction Partners Monthly Newsletter: Driving High-Quality Math Materials
Our latest blog dives into the common challenges schools face when implementing a new curriculum and offers practical tips and tools to help you avoid…
EdWeek Market Brief: California School Districts Aren’t Waiting for a State List to Adopt Math Materials
Districts in California aren’t waiting for the state to put together its new math materials list before making purchasing decisions. Instead, some are starting to…
CurriculumHQ: Curriculum Decisions Need a “Phone a Friend” Lifeline
I recently joined my local school district’s new curriculum selection committee for K-5 ELA. At our first meeting, leaders presented information from the state, including…
The San Mateo Daily Journal: Bring the California Spirit of Innovation to Math Classrooms
The state of California is at the global forefront of technological innovation and artistic inspiration. It’s also a powerhouse economy in its own right, currently…
EdSource: Bring the California Spirit of Innovation to Math Classrooms
The state of California is at the global forefront of technological innovation and artistic inspiration. It’s also a powerhouse economy in its own right, currently…
EdWeek Market Brief: Math Materials Lag Behind ELA Options in Terms of Quality, Analysis Finds
More than one in four of the K-12 math materials reviewed by the nonprofit EdReports do not meet the organization’s expectations when it comes to…
EdSurge Biz: CEMD’s K-8 Math Curriculum Report Highlighted
Math performance in the nation’s schools has become a major concern lately. Historically low scores on national tests especially put math into the spotlight. The…
ETCH: A Database of Districts’ Math Curriculum Choices
K12 Database of math curriculum materials used by 934 US school districts (representing 52% of the US K12 student populations). Data like this is incredibly…
EducationWeek: Are Schools Choosing High-Quality Math Curricula? A New Database Offers Clues
It’s possible to quantify a lot of things about the U.S. education system, but there’s one stat that remains notoriously elusive: what materials teachers are…
CurriculumHQ: Quality Curriculum Can Help More Kids Love Math
“We want kids to love math, to think like mathematicians, to appreciate its relevance and its beauty – and we want them to learn real…
The 74: Getting High-Quality Math Curriculum to the Students Who Need It Most
Students must learn math. “Future of work” studies consistently underscore this point, as analytical thinking and other math-rooted cognitive skills have become core to success…
DA: 9 Tips for Launching Tutoring Programs in Your District
On May 4, 2023, District Administration published an article about CEMD's tutoring case studies and Leading for Action tutoring report.
EdSurge: What Have Schools Learned So Far About Effective Tutoring
School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling…
EdWeek Market Brief: A Pair of Big-City District Officials Talk About What’s Working With Tutoring, and What Isn’t
When it comes to how to make a tutoring program work at scale in a district, two superintendents in the thick of the process point…
The Hechinger Report: Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?
Hidden in more than 4,000 pages of the omnibus appropriations bill that President Biden signed in December is funding for a key education initiative that…
EdSurge: Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?
From time to time, Jeff Livingston gets a call from an entrepreneur looking for advice about getting into the edtech market. That’s no surprise given…
