Announcements

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.

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.

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.

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

EDC is building capacity to close achievement gaps, enhance instruction, and improve student outcomes through two Comprehensive Centers newly funded by the U.S. Department of Education.