Media Coverage

EDC is implementing a five-year, $75 million project to improve teacher training in Pakistan. The goal of the USAID Teacher Education Project, which drew Pakistani educators to the United States for a two-week study tour, is to update and upgrade primary education across the country.

Nearly 1,000 Boston Public School students from 15 schools are part of a multimedia project called Adobe Youth Voices which lets youths tackle issues important to them, such as quitting smoking and healthy eating. Boston is one of several cities from around the globe involved in the program, which EDC helps implement for the Adobe Foundation.

A new study by EDC will examine how social networks, schools, and parents can collaborate to keep kids protected from cyberbullying.

In a letter to the editor, EDC’s June Mark and Bryan Wunar comment on the best time to teach students algebra: “Rather than push for all students to take a formal algebra course at any particular grade level…we should focus on improving students’ algebraic instruction and understanding at all levels.”

EDC officially launched the USAID-supported Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) training project for trainers in Guyana. Project leaders say the course will last two weeks, and will look at critical issues pertaining to linking youth opportunities in the country.

EDC Vice President Stephen Anzalone discusses the government of India working with the private sector to improve education.

EDC’s Julie Riordan describes the efforts of the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands to partner with states on a new study of students’ college and career trajectories.

Three youths who participated in an EDC project in India were recently honored by the Cable News Network-Indian Broadcasting Network (CNN-IBN 7) for turning an abandoned school into a thriving learning center.

Boston Public Schools asked EDC to develop an anti-bullying program that uses high school students as peer leaders to teach social and emotional skills to young people involved in all aspects of bullying.

The City of Chicago has announced it will create five new “early college” STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) schools for grades 9–14, based on the model of Brooklyn’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH). EDC worked with the New York City Department of Education, IBM, and others to document the design and launch of P-Tech, as well as its first year in operation. EDC compiled lessons learned as the basis of the STEM Pathways to College and Careers School Guide—the IBM Playbook, which will be used to help guide Chicago in setting up the new schools.

The Inside Research Blog features EDC’s Shari Kessel Schneider discussing the Digital Citizenship Research Grant awarded to EDC by Facebook to study school bullying prevention programs.

EDC’s David Litts offers advice to parents for talking to their children about bullying and suicide.

Public Television Channel THIRTEEN (WNET/NY) is launching Flight to Freedom, its second free interactive history game in its “Mission US” series. An EDC study of the first game in the series found “measurable gains in students’ historical knowledge and skills,” and found positive feedback from teachers.

The new issue of USAID FrontLines highlights EDC’s use of radio in the world’s newest nation to educate and inform people.