Cyberchase: Mobile Adventures in STEM
STEM knowledge enriches our experiences of the natural and social worlds. Providing children with early opportunities to interact with STEM, through playful and creative activities, can increase their...
View ArticleSupporting Quality in Summer Learning
Supporting-Quality-Summer-Learning.pdfThis report shares the findings from a landscape study commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and conducted by EDC to advance knowledge of how school districts...
View ArticleCollaborative for Advancing Health Equity in Out-of-School Time
Out-of-school time (OST) programs and schools across the country are facing critical challenges as they navigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s health and well-being....
View ArticleFostering Family Financial Literacy Via an Interactive Learning Game: An...
Cha-Ching-Money-Adventures-Report.pdfThis report shares findings from EDC’s evaluation study of Cha-Ching Money Adventures. Cha-Ching is an interactive learning game that introduces 7- to 10-year-olds...
View ArticleFostering Family Financial Literacy Via an Interactive Learning Game: An...
Exec-summary-Cha-Ching-Money-Adventures.pdfThis executive summary presents an overview of results from EDC’s evaluation study of Cha-Ching Money Adventures. Cha-Ching is an interactive learning game...
View ArticleCommunity Empowerment for Racial and Environmental Justice in the Asia...
In many Asia Pacific nations, environmental degradation has a disproportionate impact on Indigenous populations. The damage is substantial: forest destruction, warming and pollution of fishing waters,...
View ArticleEngaging Families of Preschoolers in Computational Thinking through Digital...
Computational thinking (CT) is increasingly important for learning and success in the workforce. CT skills allow children to think creatively and solve problems in systematic ways. However, little is...
View ArticleAdvancing the Conversation on Scaling National Informal STEM Programs
STEM programs in libraries, afterschool programs, and other informal learning settings offer unique opportunities for introducing young people to STEM. They can also empower young people to see...
View ArticleMathematics Outside the Math Classroom
September 18, 2023Matthew McLeodThis post is an excerpt from one published on the Math for All website. It is reprinted here with permission. Lots of people will say they are not very good at doing...
View ArticleEvaluation of the NOAA 21st CCLC Watershed STEM Education Partnership Grant...
While out-of-school time programs can be powerful settings for young people to develop environmental literacy skills, few youth-serving organizations have the expertise to teach environmental literacy....
View ArticleUSAID Let's Learn Together!
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) adopted a policy of fee-free primary education during the 2019-2020 school year, enabling over 4.5 million children to join school. Nevertheless, over 7...
View ArticleEducation Workforce Initiative
To meet the growing demand for quality education, the world needs 44 million additional teachers by 2030, with 15 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. However, increasing the supply of teachers...
View ArticleThe Learning Generation Report: Investing in education for a changing world
Visit ResourceAn action plan to deliver and finance an expansion of educational opportunity for more than 260 million children and youth who are not in school today.Media Type: PDFThe International...
View ArticleTransforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation
Transforming-the-Education-Workforce-Full-Report.pdfTransforming the Education Workforce lays out three evidence-based visions for strengthening the education workforce, creating more collaborative...
View ArticleDeliberate Disruptors: Can Delivery Approaches Deliver Better Education...
DeliverEd-Final-Report.pdfThis report builds on the DeliverEd research in Ghana, Pakistan, Jordan, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania that sheds light on the effectiveness of delivery approaches for improving...
View ArticleRewiring Education for People and Planet
Rewiring-Education-for-People-and-Planet.pdfVisit ResourceThis report outlines the need to work together with new and unlikely allies, other than education actors alone, to reimagine how our...
View ArticleUSAID/Jamaica Youth Empowerment Activity
EDC and its partners understand that Jamaican youth from at-risk communities are striving to move against an often negative tide of inequity, isolation, and stigma. There is a lack of coordinated...
View ArticleNational Park Foundation Evaluation and Learning Partnership
America’s national parks provide more than opportunities for outdoor recreation and exploration. They also tell stories of our nation’s histories, support landscape and wildlife conservation, and...
View ArticleTransform Together: EDC’s 2024–2026 Strategic Vision
Transform Together: EDC’s 2024–2026 Strategic VisionThis document outlines a bold new vision for EDC's next chapter of work and impact. Building upon our 65-year legacy of global impact in education,...
View ArticleDeveloping Guidelines for Neurodiversity-Affirming Engineering Programs in...
In the past, many informal learning institutions have not considered neurological differences as they planned learning experiences. Or, they have offered separate programming for autistic individuals...
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