Our Impact
We help education leaders make data-informed curriculum decisions
At CEMD, we empower education leaders to make quality decisions that can increase the awareness and adoption of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM). Our goal is to improve the curriculum information landscape, making insights and data on curriculum selection clear and accessible for everyone involved.
Why? Because quality curriculum is a crucial classroom resource.
Research shows that high-quality curriculum is key for driving meaningful improvements in teacher practice and student learning. It’s a crucial classroom resource, especially for historically underserved students.
The Problem
High-quality instructional materials are vital for improving outcomes among historically underserved students, but there’s a lack of reliable information about teacher and student access to these resources.
This leaves education leaders without the context needed to evaluate and select the best products.
Our Solution
We fill this information gap by gathering, translating, and amplifying district curriculum selection data, so that everyone in this market can make better, faster, more informed decisions about curriculum.
This data supports those key decision makers with market insights that inform their evaluation process, so they can select and implement high-quality curricula that works for their students and district context.
Our Data Collection
CEMD data provide critical visibility into the instructional experiences of more than half the nation’s students, with an intentional focus on measuring curriculum access by historically underserved students (Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, multilingual learners, and students experiencing poverty).
Includes instructional materials from core, supplemental, and assessment products
Spans the major content domains of math, ELA, science, and social studies
Includes data from nearly 1800 districts across the United States (US)
Represents the potential to impact over 27 million K-12 students in the US, through improved access to HQIM
Our Impact
CEMD’s goal is to improve the curriculum information landscape, making insights and data on curriculum selection clear and accessible for everyone involved.
CEMD amplifies our data collection and analysis in a growing number of ways:
- Publish and make freely available CEMD market reports featuring data, insights, and observations to activate informed decisions around K‑12 instructional materials
- Contribute data and insights to annual market reports authored by expert and trusted organizations
- Provide national visibility on year-over-year change in district access to HQIM
- Partner with multiple State Education Agencies to build tools for curriculum transparency to support better, more data-driven decisions
- Engage with a broad range of stakeholders, including school districts, state agencies, nonprofits, philanthropies, and curriculum providers to amplify the data and extend impact across the ecosystem
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