Press Release

CAMBRIDGE, May 14, 2026—The Strategic Data Project (SDP) at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University announced Shannon Coulter of the San Diego County Office of Education as the winner of the 2026 Strategic Data Impact Award. The...

December 2025 — Cambridge, MA – The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Nebraska Statewide Workforce & Education Reporting System (NSWERS), is proud to...

October 26, 2025—The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, welcomed its seventeenth cohort of SDP Fellows, who will spend the next two years using evidence to evaluate and...

October 8, 2025 (Cambridge, MA) — Today the Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, and national non-profit Accelerate released the High-Dosage Tutoring Data Toolkit—a free tool...

June 2025 — Cambridge, MA – The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, has accepted eighteen fellows across eighteen Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to participate in the...

BOSTON, May 8, 2025—The Strategic Data Project (SDP) at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University announced South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC) as the winner of the 2025 Strategic Data Excellence Award. The award...

SDP will launch a new data community of practice and fellowship program for MSIs to advance data use to improve student outcomes across four topic areas. December 11th, 2024- The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education...

Cohort 16 will include SDP Fellows from 41 education organizations, including school districts, state agencies, and nonprofits, with fellows using data to answer key questions about early education through postsecondary outcomes. October 21, 2024—The...

SDP will partner with NYSED to answer the most pressing questions about the state’s educator workforce, assessing how educator preparation programs are serving the state and diagnosing patterns of inequity by geography and student characteristics...

August 15, 2024 — As more postsecondary institutions offer credentials aimed at helping students succeed in the workforce, they are increasingly enrolling larger populations of students who have not historically been served by higher education. To improve...