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August 22, 2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Raising the Age to Purchase Tobacco in St. Louis
EDC research supporting raising the tobacco sales age as a way to curb teen smoking continues to enter policy discussions in states and cities across the country.
July 29, 2016
New Times (Rwanda)
Creating Employment Opportunities for Youth
In Rwanda, a youth workforce development project created by EDC called Akazi Kanoze will continue to operate as Akazi Kanoze Access, a locally run nongovernmental organization.
June 28, 2016
WBUR (NPR Boston)
New Standards for Computer Science Education
Massachusetts has voted to adopt new statewide standards for computer science education that could be in effect by this fall. EDC was instrumental in developing the voluntary standards (which also include digital literacy skills), working in collaboration with education, industry, and government partners in the Massachusetts Computing Attainment Network (MassCAN).
June 26, 2016
Foreign Policy
Building a Culture of Entrepreneurship
The government of Rwanda is working to build a culture of entrepreneurship among its youth, who make up 40 percent of the country’s population. The EDC-implemented Akazi Kanoze project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is highlighted as one successful effort to provide youth with the skills needed to find employment or create a business.
June 14, 2016
The Huffington Post
Don't Tell Or Believe A Single Story
In this Huffington Post article, Gustavo Payan writes about the dangers of repeating a single, one-dimensional story about a group of people and the damage that story can do.
June 8, 2016
Medium
USAID Highlights EDC’s Work in Rwanda
USAID Senior Advisor for International Education Christie Vilsack writes about her recent trip to Rwanda, where she saw firsthand the results of EDC’s efforts to increase early-grade reading through the Literacy, Language, and Learning Initiative and to improve youth workforce skills such as communication and entrepreneurship through the Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihoods Project. Both projects are funded by USAID.
June 1, 2016
Health Affairs
Zero Suicide a Model for Prevention
In “Suicide Prevention: An Emerging Priority for Health Care,” EDC’s Julie Goldstein Grumet calls suicide an emerging priority in healthcare settings and highlights EDC’s Zero Suicide prevention approach as a model for better identification and treatment of patients at risk.
May 26, 2016
AllAfrica
Improving Literacy in Rwanda
Government and education leaders in Rwanda say they are proud of the widespread improvements in early-grade reading, reflecting the work of the Literacy, Language, and Learning (L3) Initiative to improve early literacy throughout the country. L3 is managed by EDC and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
May 26, 2016
Youth Today
Improving the Quality of Out-of-School Time Programs
In this Q&A, EDC’s Tony Streit talks about the importance of out-of-school time (OST) for school age children and efforts to improve the OST workforce.
May 20, 2016
eSchool News
Defining Data Literacy
What does it mean to be ‘data literate’? What should schools be teaching students about big data to prepare them for the workforce? For answers to these questions, EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators that has issued a new report, Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue, and a call to action to expand data literacy skills in schools.