Press Releases

In the push to create digital learning resources for schools, developers say social studies have largely been ignored. Now that vacuum is being filled by EDC’s Zoom In, a free online tool that helps students learn U.S. history while also strengthening their literacy skills.

New research has shown significant declines in teen smoking after raising the minimum sales age for tobacco to 21.

The EDC board of trustees has selected David Offensend, former chief operating officer of the New York Public Library, as the next president and chief executive officer of EDC.

The American Alliance of Museums has recognized EDC’s work with the Arkansas-based Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art with a Gold MUSE Award for outstanding achievement.

EDC’s nationally known programs to reduce injury, violence, and suicide have been recognized by two federal agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with combined first-year awards of nearly $7 million.

EDC will join other winners of the USAID All Children Reading Grand Challenge competition for a summit meeting to discuss scaling up early-grade reading efforts in the Asia Pacific region. EDC will showcase results of its literacy data initiative first introduced in the Philippines in 2011. The summit will be held in Melbourne, Australia, April 27-28.

Thousands of educators in the United States and around the world are tapping into online teaching resources created by EDC’s Success at the Core. To date, more than 20,000 Web users have registered for materials to help boost student math, science, and English language arts achievement.

EDC will design a comprehensive training and implementation initiative for Boston-based Seniorlink to promote evidence-based care for individuals with dementia being cared for at home.

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.