At a White House event today, Obama administration officials announced The Startup America Partnership, a new program to spur entrepreneurship. EDC’s partnership with the HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) is part of the new initiative.
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offers an "electronic field trip" on March 1, 2011, and a website of interactive games, lesson plans, and more to help students in Grades 4-8 learn firsthand how science is used to monitor and manage human and natural change in an ecosystem.
EDC President and CEO Luther Luedtke announced today that Vijay Kumar, senior associate dean at MIT, and Judy Codding, president and CEO of the nonprofit America’s Choice, have joined EDC’s board of trustees.
Teachers lead the fight against HIV and AIDS, high school students explore careers, out-of-school youth build skills in rural Mali.
displays winning posters designed by students to show what a person must do to become president of the U.S. (General Services Administration)
A chance encounter in a company mailroom launched Eric Gavell’s IT career. EDC’s Assistant Director of Technical Services tells what it takes to be successful in this field.
Several decades of civil conflict in Liberia have left teachers with languishing reading and math skills and little opportunity for improvement. To update their skills and help create a more effective teacher corps, more than 1,000 teachers and facilitators in six counties will receive three days of refresher in-service training. Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), will deliver the workshop as part of the Core Education Skills for Liberian Youth (CESLY) program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
EDC and its local partners are providing India’s Muslim youth with access to educational and vocational programs.
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.
World’s mental health experts rally in support of fighting lingering stigma.