Media Coverage

EDC’s Literacy, Language, and Learning (L3) Initiative in Rwanda is conducting training to improve the English language skills of 700 primary school teachers.

The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, of which EDC is secretariat, has launched a new task force that will explore the contributions that survivors can make to prevention efforts.

Online education is growing fast, with 31 states now allowing purely online schools. “It’s exploding,” says Barbara Treacy, director of EdTech Leaders Online at EDC in the latest issue of District Administration. “What we’re going to see in the future is a spectrum of blended courses, and the rare classroom that is 100 percent face-to-face.”

EDC’s Mahmood Butt, chief of party of the USAID Teacher Education Project in Pakistan, discusses how the project is reforming the country’s education degree program.

EDC’s Cornelia Janke writes about the benefits of nonformal education to those who have missed critical years of schooling due to war and conflict.

The Regional Educational Laboratory for the Northeast and Islands held a roundtable meeting to discuss dropout prevention and college and career readiness of students in Puerto Rico.

EDC’s Sally Fogerty of the Children’s Safety Network discusses the signs of teen dating violence, offering advice to both teens and parents.

A school district is implementing changes to its special education programs as a result of an audit conducted by EDC’s Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative.

In a commentary, EDC’s David Litts and Linda Langford recommend that messaging about U.S military and veteran suicides focus more on solutions and prevention and less on statistics, stories of hopelessness, and failures in the system.

EDC’s Said Yasin addresses strategies for improving the quality of education in Rwanda.

A program implemented by EDC is promoting education, social and leadership development, and livelihoods for thousands of out-of-school youth in Liberia.

EDC’s David Litts of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention discusses the myth of increased suicides during the holiday season and the dangers of the media perpetuating this myth.

EDC’s Norma Evans discusses efforts to promote a culture of reading in Rwanda through the Literacy, Language, and Learning (L3) project.

In an article discussing the iCarly television program, Shelley Pasnik of EDC’s Center for Children and Technology discusses how the program was ahead of its time in terms of how young people interact with technology.