EDC will build on its Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) work through a new strategic partnership led by The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC).
EDC has been selected to implement the USAID-funded Teach for Tomorrow project in Egypt to support improvements in primary-level instruction across the country.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded EDC a three-year grant to continue leading the STEM Learning and Research Center (STELAR), a national initiative to address STEM learning opportunity gaps, ignite interest in STEM, and prepare young people for future careers in STEM.
We look forward to listening, especially to our Black colleagues within EDC and the communities we serve, and continuing to work with our partners to develop concrete actions we can take together.
Videos by EDC STEM education experts Eden Badertscher, Jackie DeLisi, and Randy Kochevar won awards in the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM for All Video Showcase.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) selected EDC to lead Opportunity 2.0, a five-year, $37.5 million project supporting out-of-school youth for better education, employment, and livelihood outcomes.
Through this new initiative, the Action Alliance will convene government agencies, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations to comprehensively and collectively address mental health and suicide prevention.
EDC experts will share strategies to prevent suicide and promote mental health at the 2020 American Association of Suicidology Virtual Conference on April 22–25. The theme of the conference is “Crossroads: Preventing Suicide and Building Lives Worth Living.”
EDC’s new initiative—Mentoring New Data Pathways in Community Colleges—is helping faculty in six community colleges design programs to prepare students for data science and analytics careers.
The usual in-person format for the 2020 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference was changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many EDC presenters are contributing to the virtual conference through live webinar sessions and through recording and posting their sessions to CIES 2020. EDC will provide recordings of CIES presentations on this page as they become available.
