Media Coverage

EDC’s study on the rise of cyberbullying in Massachusetts schools is highlighted in this front page story. The research found girls were increasingly the targets of cyberbullying and that incidents were aided by the prevalence of cellphones among teens. EDC’s Shari Kessel Schneider discusses the findings, which appeared in the Journal of School Health.

Zoom In, a new free tool for educators developed by EDC’s Center for Children and Technology, can help students build their writing skills while learning social studies.

Bringing together teachers and lecturers is improving the quality of education in Indonesia, according to EDC’s Lynne Hill.

Changes in the minimum tobacco sales age can help reduce youth smoking and prevent addiction later in life, says EDC’s Shari Kessel Schneider.

More than 80 percent of smokers begin before they turn 18, says EDC researcher Shari Kessel Schneider in this post about a new EDC study on raising the tobacco sales age.

The Ford PAS Next Generation Learning initiative (a collaboration of EDC and the Ford Motor Company Fund) is using innovative activities to help prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The project is opening four new STEM academies in Detroit.

Science fairs have long been a staple of U.S. education. But are they cost effective? And do they have an impact on student learning and interest in science? New research led by EDC’s Abigail Jurist Levy seeks the answers to these questions.

Most young kids are using mobile devices in some way by age two, a new study shows. In this article, EDC’s Shelley Pasnik, director of the Center for Children and Technology, comments on the study’s findings. “It’s not surprising that parents have integrated the very devices that are part of their own lives into family patterns in order to come up with a few minutes to tend to the dishes or the trash or laundry,” she says.

EDC’s Morton Silverman offers advice for parents wondering how to respond to teen suicides in this article about a recent spate of them in a California community. Silverman is senior science advisor to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at EDC.

A report on prevention spending by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention is cited in an article about the need for suicide prevention training for army chaplains. In its report, the Action Alliance found that spending on suicide research is severely lagging when compared to research on other leading causes of death. EDC is secretariat for the Action Alliance.