EDC will receive $13 million over the next five years to help ensure at-risk pregnant mothers and families get the needed support to prepare their children to enter school healthy and ready to learn.
A new study by researchers at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, the University of Massachusetts, and EDC finds that the economic cost of suicide in the United States has been significantly underestimated.
EDC researchers will present new education findings at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), which is marking its 100th year.
Researchers at EDC and SRI International have found that children who used media content from PBS KIDS’ series PEG + CAT showed improvement in critical math areas involving ordinal numbers, spatial relationships, and 3-D shapes.
EDC is working with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate “Next Generation STEM Learning for All,” a daylong forum on STEM learning.
Eleven communities will receive $4 million in grants to boost their biology education thanks to the Amgen Foundation’s Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE), an innovative science education program managed by EDC.
EDC will receive $6 million over the next four years to manage the National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. Announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the new center was established to advance infant and early childhood mental health consultation.
EDC has been selected by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care (OCC), to receive $10 million over five years to lead the new National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE).
