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EDC has received a four-year, $6.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lead a partnership that will adapt the University of California, Berkeley’s Beauty and Joy of Computing college course for high school students and bring it to New York City (NYC) public schools.

Having announced in 2014 that he would retire in early 2015, EDC President and Chief Executive Officer Luther S. Luedtke officially steps down today, February 6, following the company’s board meeting earlier this week.

EDC has been awarded two contracts by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) designed to improve equitable access to education among children and youth living amid crisis and conflict.

EDC has been awarded $3 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) to lead a project designed to boost the academic success of pre-K through Grade 1 English learners in Hartford, Connecticut. The project will be known as Literacy and Academic Success for English Learners through Science, or LASErS.

EDC's Oceans of Data Institute has created an first-of-its-kind occupational profile for careers in big data. The profile was compiled by a panel of experts and validated by more than 100 big data professionals.

EDC has selected 10 new recipients for its highly competitive annual CADRE Fellows Program. Recipients receive a one-year fellowship to work with the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), a resource network for STEM education researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

EDC has been awarded $12 million over five years to work with universities, employers, and U.S. technology companies in Southeast Asia to improve employment options for young people. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the project known as COMET (Connecting the Mekong through Education and Training) aims to reach more than 20,000 youth in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

EDC has received $11 million for one year, with an additional four option years, to continue its nationally recognized work to prevent substance abuse and strengthen the behavioral health workforce through the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT).

EDC, in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Association of Social Workers, will establish a new Mental Health and HIV/AIDS Training Resource Center.