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June 3, 2020
EDC Receives NSF Award to Continue STELAR

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.

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May 26, 2020
EDC Receives Three Awards at the NSF STEM for All Video Showcase

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.

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May 8, 2020
EDC to Prepare Philippine Youth for Education and Employment

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.

April 28, 2020
New Initiative Responds to COVID-19 Impact on Mental Health

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.

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April 20, 2020
EDC Presents at the 2020 AAS Virtual Conference

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.”

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March 9, 2020
EDC Launches New Data Pathways Program for Community Colleges

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.

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February 13, 2020
EDC at CIES 2020

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.

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February 3, 2020
EDC Lebanon Project Partners with Five Higher Ed Institutions

An EDC education program in Lebanon, which aims to improve the effectiveness of the country’s higher education system in relation to preparing graduates for the workforce, recently signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the first cohort of five Lebanese institutions of higher education.

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January 27, 2020
World Economic Forum Recognizes EDC Program

An EDC workforce development project has been recognized as a promising new model for education by the World Economic Forum.

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January 7, 2020
EDC, BSAS Host Statewide Prevention Conference

For the sixth year in a row, EDC’s Center for Strategic Prevention Support (CSPS) organized the Massachusetts Statewide Prevention Conference, which attracted 200 health and prevention professionals working to reduce opioid, alcohol, and other drug misuse in communities across the Commonwealth.