The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected EDC to lead two significant projects in Africa—one in education and one in health—over the next five years.
As California debates raising its smoking age, EDC researcher Shari Kessel Schneider says a hike to age 21 for purchasing tobacco limits teens’ access to cigarettes.
David Riley, a fierce advocate for inclusive education who spent most of his career at EDC, passed away on May 2 after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 71.
EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators for a workshop on data literacy. Their recommendations are now included in a new report, Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue.
A new study by researchers at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, the University of Massachusetts, and EDC finds that the economic cost of suicide in the United States has been significantly underestimated.
In this story about using technology for education, Devex turned to EDC to share lessons learned from implementing interactive radio instruction for internally displaced people in Somalia. EDC’s Simon Richmond and Rachel Christina are interviewed.