Announcements

EDC staff will join other partners in education at the 2020 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference to discuss this year’s theme of “Education Beyond the Human.” The meeting will be held in Miami, Florida, March 22–26.

An EDC education program in Lebanon, which aims to improve the effectiveness of the country’s higher education system in relation to preparing graduates for the workforce, recently signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the first cohort of five Lebanese institutions of higher education.

An EDC workforce development project has been recognized as a promising new model for education by the World Economic Forum.

For the sixth year in a row, EDC’s Center for Strategic Prevention Support (CSPS) organized the Massachusetts Statewide Prevention Conference, which attracted 200 health and prevention professionals working to reduce opioid, alcohol, and other drug misuse in communities across the Commonwealth.

EDC is building capacity to close achievement gaps, enhance instruction, and improve student outcomes through two Comprehensive Centers newly funded by the U.S. Department of Education.