Education Development Center

Congratulations to Richard McKeon, Deputy Director of Strategy for the National Action Alliance for Su***de Prevention at EDC, on receiving the inaugural CrisisCon Lifetime Achievement Award.

Richard has dedicated more than three decades to advancing su***de prevention and crisis services in the United States. During his 22 years at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, he served as Chief of the Su***de Prevention Branch and later as a senior advisor supporting the launch and growth of the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline.

Learn more about this year's National Crisis Continuum Conference: https://www.crisiscon.org/speakers.html

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EDC is honored to have our First 10 initiative named a “Bright Spot” in the Center on Early Learning Success’ research brief, "Transitions to Kindergarten and Beyond."

First 10 helps elementary schools, early childhood providers, and community organizations work together to improve outcomes for children and families.

Learn more:

First 10 Named a Bright Spot in New CELS Research Brief on Kindergarten Transitions – First 10 We are thrilled to share that First 10 was named a “Bright Spot” in the CELS Center’s new research brief, Transitions to Kindergarten and Beyond. The brief highlights the practices, policies, and conditions that support children and families as they move into kindergarten and through the early...

EDC is honored to lead the independent evaluation of the Everyday Literacy Alliance, a new national initiative to strengthen literacy for children ages 2 to 8.

A national coalition of partners including Nine PBS, Fred Rogers Productions, Ad Astra Media, LLC, E-Line Media, the Alliance reflects a simple idea: giving children a strong start takes more than any single program, classroom, or screen. It takes public media, family resources and community partnerships all working in harmony.

By studying how these experiences work together, EDC will generate insights that can help communities build stronger environments for early learning and help the field understand how effective literacy approaches can be adapted and scaled.

Learn more about the Alliance, funded by Ready to Learn and administered by the Department of Education: https://go.edc.org/ninePBS26f

We’re proud to be part of the Everyday Literacy Alliance and to continue EDC’s more than two decades of research through Ready To Learn. As the Alliance’s independent evaluator, EDC will study how educational media, family engagement, and community partnerships can work together to strengthen young children’s literacy, building evidence that can help this work grow and reach more families and communities nationwide.

Congratulations to Nine PBS and all of our partners. We’re excited for this next chapter.

We have big news to share! 🎉

has been chosen to receive over $11 million in year one of a five-year cycle through a federal grant to help more children build the literacy skills they need for lifelong success.

Through the Everyday Literacy Alliance, we'll bring together educational media, family engagement, and community partnerships. Our work begins right here in St. Louis, and together with partners nationwide, it will grow to reach children and families across the country.

Thank you to our partners, including Fred Rogers Productions, Ad Astra Media, E-Line Media, Education Development Center, the Brown School Evaluation Center at Washington University in St. Louis, and everyone who believes that strong communities start with strong kids. 📚

Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4xYoooS

This project, as outlined in the proposal, is funded 100% (totaling $56 million) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education through the Ready To Learn Program.

Science is stronger when people have a meaningful way to take part.

That's the mission behind PACE Clouds Challenge, which invites people over the next few weeks to use the GLOBE Observer app to photograph clouds as NASA’s PACE satellite passes overhead. Researchers can then compare those photos with what the satellite sees from space.

EDC and CUNY lead the GLOBE Implementation Office, a NASA-funded effort that connects people with opportunities to contribute to science. Rebecca Lewis, the office’s project director at EDC, shares how GLOBE gives people a meaningful way to contribute to science.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/nasa-clouds-pace-satellite-app-challenge-b3048197.html

We often talk about the transition to a greener economy in terms of technology, infrastructure and investment. But making that transition possible also requires people with the skills to build, operate and improve what comes next.

Young people entering the workforce today will work in economies that continue to change. Preparing them means connecting education and workforce development to where those economies are headed, while giving them the skills to adapt as they evolve.

A person experiencing a mental health crisis doesn’t arrive with only a mental health problem. They bring what’s happening at school or work, in their relationships, with their finances and in their community.

For Colleen Carr and the team she leads at EDC working on mental health and su***de prevention, that’s why prevention has to begin long before someone reaches a clinic or crisis line, and in many more places.

The earlier we see the connections, the more opportunities we have to change the path forward.

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We spend a lot of time talking about how AI will change the workforce. Rebecca Lewis, who leads our US Workforce Development strategy, is thinking further upstream.

The technologies young people encounter will keep changing. So preparing them for the future isn’t just about teaching the tools of today. It’s about building the skills to keep learning, adapting and finding opportunity as the world changes.

That work starts long before someone enters the workforce. It starts in school.