EDC co-sponsored a special report on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in USA Today that appeared over New Year’s weekend. The report, prepared by Media Planet, was distributed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Cleveland, reaching more than three million readers.
Categories
- 21st Century Skills (7)
- Adult Education (5)
- Afterschool (2)
- Arts Education (2)
- Bilingual Education (4)
- Bioethics (1)
- Bullying (7)
- Chronic Disease / Pain Management (6)
- Community Health (3)
- Comprehensive School Reform (10)
- Conflict Prevention (9)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (5)
- Curriculum (6)
- Early Childhood Education (9)
- Economic Development (11)
- Elementary Grades (6)
- English as a Second Language (ESL) (6)
- Equity and Diversity (12)
- Family Health (5)
- Global Projects (47)
- Head Start (3)
- High Schools (6)
- Higher Education (2)
- homepage-feature (3)
- Inclusive Schools (6)
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (14)
- Institutional Support (1)
- Integrating Work and Learning (4)
- Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) (11)
- LGBT (3)
- Literacy (8)
- Mathematics (14)
- Medical Education (2)
- Medical Ethics (5)
- Mental Health (9)
- Mentoring (1)
- Middle Grades (5)
- Multichannel Learning (3)
- Muslim Contexts (13)
- Online Communities (6)
- Online Education (14)
- Out-of-school Youth (14)
- Palliative Care (7)
- Policy Development (4)
- Post-Disaster Aid (13)
- Pre-K (8)
- Prevention – Alcohol, Tobacco, and other drugs (6)
- Prevention – HIV/AIDS (7)
- Prevention – Violence and Injury (16)
- Professional Development (16)
- Public Health (4)
- Research and Evaluation (20)
- School Health (9)
- School Leadership (3)
- School-Community Partnerships (2)
- School-to-Career (5)
- School-to-Career Programs (8)
- Science (15)
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) (10)
- Skill Standards (4)
- Special Education (7)
- Suicide Prevention (13)
- Sustainable Development (16)
- Technology (33)
- Uncategorized (220)
- Video games (4)
- Women's Education (1)
- Youth Development (9)
- Youth Employment (15)
- Youth Leadership (3)
Categories
- 21st Century Skills (7)
- Adult Education (5)
- Afterschool (2)
- Arts Education (2)
- Bilingual Education (4)
- Bioethics (1)
- Bullying (7)
- Chronic Disease / Pain Management (6)
- Community Health (3)
- Comprehensive School Reform (10)
- Conflict Prevention (9)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (5)
- Curriculum (6)
- Early Childhood Education (9)
- Economic Development (11)
- Elementary Grades (6)
- English as a Second Language (ESL) (6)
- Equity and Diversity (12)
- Family Health (5)
- Global Projects (47)
- Head Start (3)
- High Schools (6)
- Higher Education (2)
- homepage-feature (3)
- Inclusive Schools (6)
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (14)
- Institutional Support (1)
- Integrating Work and Learning (4)
- Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) (11)
- LGBT (3)
- Literacy (8)
- Mathematics (14)
- Medical Education (2)
- Medical Ethics (5)
- Mental Health (9)
- Mentoring (1)
- Middle Grades (5)
- Multichannel Learning (3)
- Muslim Contexts (13)
- Online Communities (6)
- Online Education (14)
- Out-of-school Youth (14)
- Palliative Care (7)
- Policy Development (4)
- Post-Disaster Aid (13)
- Pre-K (8)
- Prevention – Alcohol, Tobacco, and other drugs (6)
- Prevention – HIV/AIDS (7)
- Prevention – Violence and Injury (16)
- Professional Development (16)
- Public Health (4)
- Research and Evaluation (20)
- School Health (9)
- School Leadership (3)
- School-Community Partnerships (2)
- School-to-Career (5)
- School-to-Career Programs (8)
- Science (15)
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) (10)
- Skill Standards (4)
- Special Education (7)
- Suicide Prevention (13)
- Sustainable Development (16)
- Technology (33)
- Uncategorized (220)
- Video games (4)
- Women's Education (1)
- Youth Development (9)
- Youth Employment (15)
- Youth Leadership (3)
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EDC has been chosen to continue operating the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands through 2017 with a new five-year contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education. EDC has led the REL since 2006.
In a blog post EDC research about the educational benefits of video games is cited.
In the midst of the severe drought in Somalia, an EDC project is giving youth in the country an opportunity to earn money while increasing access to safe drinking water.
A new system for training and evaluating teachers is transforming education in the West African nation of Benin.
Eighth-grade students who are “algebra ready” and take an online Algebra I course because their schools do not offer the class, outperform their peers in algebra knowledge and are twice as likely to take advanced mathematics classes in high school. This according to a rigorous new federally funded study conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) for the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI).
Eighth-grade students who are “algebra ready” and take an online Algebra I course because their schools do not offer the class, outperform their peers in algebra knowledge and are twice as likely to take advanced mathematics classes in high school. This according to a rigorous new federally funded study conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) for the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI).
By providing leadership development opportunities, the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative is improving outcomes for students with disabilities in the nation’s urban schools.
EDC’s Shari Kessel Schneider discusses the prevalence of teens sending and receiving sexually explicit text messages (sexting). Her comments are based on the results of the biannual MetroWest (MA) Adolescent Health Survey funded by the MetroWest Health Foundation.
This December 15 webinar, sponsored by the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands, is based on a new study that examines the impact of offering grade 8 students an online algebra course. EDC’s Katherine Culp, who co-authored the study, will moderate the webinar and be joined by staff from EDC and the American Institutes for Research.