Announcements

June 14, 2021

EDC Partners with the LEGO Foundation to Promote Play

EDC will be the research partner for the Learning through Play with Technology initiative, a five-year effort to fuse play, technology, and learning for children in schools around the world.

June 9, 2021

EDC Appoints Lauren Klein as Director of Communications

EDC has appointed Lauren Klein as its new director of communications.

June 1, 2021

Remembering Mike Laflin

We at EDC mourn the loss of Mike Laflin—friend and colleague—who died on May 19 after a short illness.

May 10, 2021

Prioritizing Diverse Voices, Experiences in STEM

EDC’s Eden Badertscher and Pam Buffington will discuss the necessity of diversifying STEM education efforts in the United States in an upcoming congressional briefing sponsored by EDC and the STEM Education Coalition.

May 7, 2021

Join EDC at the Seventh STEM For All Video Showcase

EDC STEM education experts, researchers, and evaluators will present and co-present 13 videos in the free 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM For All Video Showcase on May 11–18.

April 27, 2021

New EDC Study to Advance Knowledge of Children’s Math and Spatial Learning

EDC, in partnership with public media producer, GBH, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and study a math curriculum supplement targeted to build the spatial orientation (SO) skills of children and to improve the early math learning of preschoolers living in under-resourced communities.

April 23, 2021

EDC Welcomes Richard Fournier as Partnership Director for EDC Ventures

Richard Fournier, EdD, has rejoined EDC as the partnership director for EDC Ventures.

April 20, 2021

EDC to Study Education of Massachusetts Youth in Juvenile Justice Custody and Care

EDC has been awarded a contract from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) to conduct the first evaluation in over a decade of the educational services provided to young people detained in or committed to the Commonwealth’s juvenile justice facilities.

April 14, 2021

Join EDC at CIES 2021

Join EDC development specialists at the 2021 Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Annual Meeting, to be held virtually from April 25 to May 2.

April 6, 2021

New Research from EDC and SRI International Demonstrates Positive Effects of PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI on Children’s Learning

Two separate rigorous studies found that children from low-income households who were given MOLLY OF DENALI videos, digital games, and activities were better able to solve problems using informational text.