Posted on June 3, 2011 in Comprehensive School Reform, Global Projects, Post-Disaster Aid by Education Development Center : EDCComments Off
With classrooms covered in ash, resilient Indonesian teachers overcome continual disruptions to calm, educate their students.

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Posted on April 19, 2011 in Comprehensive School Reform, Middle Grades, Online Education, Professional Development, School Leadership by Education Development Center : EDCComments Off
Success at the Core, a free online professional development resource for school-based leadership teams and teachers, has won a 2011 Best Educational Software (BESSIE) Award for “Best Professional Development Website.” EDC and Vulcan Productions created Success at the Core to help leadership teams and teachers prepare all students for success.

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Posted on January 17, 2011 in Comprehensive School Reform by Education Development Center : EDCComments Off
In a published letter in The New York Times, EDC’s Naomi Hupert takes issue with a story about open classrooms, saying they are not a new innovation, and proponents should consult existing research on teaching and learning.

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Posted on December 21, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, Global Projects, Muslim Contexts by Eric MarshallComments Off
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded EDC $75 million for a five-year project to be known as D-RASATI (“my studies” in Arabic) that will include thousands of students and teachers in more than 1,300 public schools throughout Lebanon.

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Posted on October 8, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, Higher Education, Online Education by Eric MarshallComments Off
As students face their options after high school, they have many questions. A new online course helps school counselors answer these questions and create a college-going culture.

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Posted on July 2, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, High Schools, Research and Evaluation by Eric MarshallComments Off
EDC will collaborate on a new $13.6 million national center to identify what makes some large urban high schools effective and then transfer those practices to less-effective schools.

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Ismail and Siti Fatimah are teachers in Indonesia. They work hard to be good teachers—but they also want to be better ones. To that end, Ismail attends a weeklong workshop for technology training in the capital of his province. He goes there to learn about computers so he can teach his colleagues.

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Posted on March 8, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, Professional Development, School Leadership by Eric MarshallComments Off
With the goal of strengthening the preparation that new K-12 principals receive in schools of education around the country, EDC will host a forum to share strategies to improve these programs nationwide.
Posted on March 8, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, Professional Development, School Leadership by Eric MarshallComments Off
With the goal of strengthening the preparation that new K-12 principals receive in schools of education around the country, EDC will host a forum to share strategies to improve these programs nationwide.
Posted on January 29, 2010 in Comprehensive School Reform, Professional Development, Research and Evaluation, Technology by Eric MarshallComments Off
With guidance from the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands, educators navigate complex research and practices to help U.S. schools.