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September 15, 2016
EDC's Goodyear Elected President of American Evaluation Association

EDC principal research scientist Leslie Goodyear has been elected president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA).

September 14, 2016
Launching a Social Movement for Literacy in Ghana
EDC will lead Ghana Innovating, a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand literacy in the West African nation.
September 12, 2016
The MasterCard Foundation Selects EDC to Boost Youth Employability in Senegal
EDC has been awarded a $15 million grant by The MasterCard Foundation to help prepare young people in the West African nation of Senegal for employment.
August 4, 2016
Library of Congress Turns to EDC as Research Collaborator
The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., has selected EDC as the key research collaborator for its Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program, which helps educators use its enormous collection of digitized primary source materials in the classroom.
July 14, 2016
EDC's Repp Awarded InsideNGO 2016 Excellence Award
EDC Vice President Ken Repp, director of the International Office of Sponsored Programs, has been awarded the 2016 Excellence Award in Grants & Contracts by the trade association InsideNGO at its annual conference in Washington, D.C.
The signing ceremony included (left to right): EDC’s Jessica Miranda, First Lady of Honduras Ana García de Hernández, and Minister of Education Marlon Escoto.
June 29, 2016
Honduras Adopts EDC's English for Latin America Program
EDC’s English for Latin America (ELA) program has been adopted for use in high schools throughout Honduras under an agreement signed earlier this month. The programs will be used by more than 21,000 students and will assist teachers, regardless of their own proficiency levels, to teach both English and work readiness skills.
June 8, 2016
EDC Appoints Nyagaka Ongeri to Board of Trustees
EDC President and CEO David Offensend announced today that Nyagaka Ongeri has joined EDC’s Board of Trustees.
June 8, 2016
EDC to Expand Early Grade Reading in Mali and HIV/AIDS Education for Children in the DRC
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected EDC to lead two significant projects in Africa—one in education and one in health—over the next five years.
May 4, 2016
Building Global Interest in Data Literacy
EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators for a workshop on data literacy. Their recommendations are now included in a new report, Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue.
April 27, 2016
Conference to Focus on Early-Grade Literacy in Rwanda
EDC will facilitate a national conference on the progress made toward early-grade literacy goals in Rwanda during a two-day event in Kigali, May 4–5.