November 14, 2025: What California’s List and National Signals Reveal About Turning Adoption Into Impact

The Center for Education Market Dynamics • November 14, 2025

This week’s Market Insights highlights what California’s list and national signals reveal about turning adoption into impact. Newsletter highlights include:

Spotlight

• CEMD | California’s New Math Instructional Materials List: Five Ways District Leaders Can Turn Selection Into Success

From the Field

• CurriculumHQ | California is Problem-Solving for High-Quality Math Curriculum
• NCTQ | The missing link in reading reform: Centering English learners in state literacy policies

Listen & Learn

• Policy Changes Lives (Season 2025, Ep. 10) | The Data Imperative: How states should “level up” high school
  

What We’re Reading

• The74 | These Schools Are Beating the Odds in Teaching Kids to Read
• Chalkbeat | The “southern surge”: What’s really going on?
• McKinsey | From surplus to scarcity: K–12 districts brace for leaner years

Save the Date

• State of Curriculum Data | RSVP for Tuesday, November 18th at 3 pm ET

Resource of the Week

• CEMD | 13,000 Districts, 13,000 Realities: What Numbers Reveal infographic

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