Education Development Center, Inc.

• Human Rights Report Reveals Widespread Non-Compliance with Mandatory Policy Aimed at Stemming 'Pushout' Crisis in South Los Angeles Schools

African American Students Continue to Be Disproportionately Suspended From Schools LOS ANGELES, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of the U.S. Human Rights Fund's national convening being held in Los Angeles today, Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), Public Counsel Law Center, and Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (MHAS) released the primary findings from their report, Redefining Dignity in Our Schools: A Shadow Report on School- Wide Positive Behavior Support Implementation in South Los Angeles, 2007-2010.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 15, 2010

• Fiscal Year 2011 Funding Opportunities:

...Education Development Resource Center, Inc., Newton, Massach...

• FR, July 25, 2011
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• Education Development Center Wins Major Education Research Contract; Northeast Regional Laboratory to Be Based at Edc

NEWTON, Mass., March 21 /U.S. newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Education has announced that Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), in partnership with WestEd and American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded a five-year $38 million contract to lead the Northeast and Islands Regional Education Laboratory (NEIREL). As one of a network of 10 such labs across the country, NEIREL will conduct research on new approaches to improving teaching and learning and disseminate proven approaches to educators and policymakers. EDC, an international non-profit education and health research organization, has been awarded the contract to serve the Northeast and Islands region, one of the largest and most diverse in the country, which includes more than 5 million students, nearly 10,000 s...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 21, 2006

• Teaching Teens Nationwide That 'Love Is Not Abuse'

These survey findings mobilized some of the country's leading experts on domestic violence and teens, from such organizations as Break the Cycle, Family Violence Prevention Fund and Safe Horizon to work with the Education Development Center and Liz Claiborne Inc. to develop the first national curriculum that will bring the issue of dating abuse to the classroom. The curriculum is designed to raise awareness among teens and teachers about the signs of dating violence and provide pragmatic information not only about preventing abuse, but how those experiencing it can ask for help. It will explain the difference between love and control; it will describe specific resources and assistance that teens can utilize if they need help; it will create open and, we hope, frank discussions about how...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 05, 2009

• Child Deaths in Parked Cars Often Caused by Parents Who Forget Them; New Study Looks at How and Why It Happens

NEWTON, Mass., April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- About 75 percent of child deaths in parked cars are due to adults leaving children unattended, either intentionally or unintentionally, a new study has found. Researchers from the Massachusetts-based Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) studied the circumstances under which young children die in parked motor vehicles, recently publishing their findings in the journal Injury Prevention. Researchers analyzed 171 U.S. fatalities between 1995 and 2002, looking at this cause of death in children ages five and younger. Since there are no standard sources of public health or law enforcement data on this type of fatality, data were gathered from a methodical search of online news accounts. Their analysis showed that 27 percent were children who ga...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 20, 2005

• Human Rights Report Reveals Widespread Non-Compliance with Mandatory Policy Aimed at Stemming 'Pushout' Crisis in South Los Angeles Schools

African American Students Continue to Be Disproportionately Suspended From Schools LOS ANGELES, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of the U.S. Human Rights Fund's national convening being held in Los Angeles tomorrow, Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), Public Counsel Law Center, and Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (MHAS) released the primary findings from their report, Redefining Dignity in Our Schools: A Shadow Report on School- Wide Positive Behavior Support Implementation in South Los Angeles, 2007-2010.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 14, 2010

• Wilmington United Neighborhoods, Edith Beck, John J. and Frances Bradley, Joseph J. Breen, Thomas X. Carroll, Joseph G. Dipinto, Ethel B. Tynes, Alice Wilson, Appellants, v. United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Amos M. Burke, as Director of the Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development, Robert H. Sweeney, Delaware Health Council, Inc., Wilmington Medical Center, Inc. (D.C. Civil No. 77-0439). Wilmington Medical Center, Inc., a Non-Profit Corporation of the State of Delaware v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and Wilmington United Neighborhoods, (Defendant-Intervenor), Appellant (D.C. Civil No. 77-0480)., 615 F.2d 112 (3rd Cir. 1980)

Marilyn G. Rose, Herbert Semmel, (Argued), Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D. C., Douglas Shachtman, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., ...

• Federal Circuits

• Laura Bush Visits Edc's Women's Teacher Training Institute; Afghanistan Visit Highlights Literacy, Local Governance Efforts

NEWTON, Mass., March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- First Lady Laura Bush's visit to Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday highlighted the work of the Women's Teacher Training Institute, a facility operated by the Newton, Massachusetts-based Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), an education research organization. Accompanied by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, Mrs. Bush was traveling with a delegation of the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council, which aims to strengthen partnerships between the two nations, especially to promote education for women. The teacher institute is part of the Afghanistan Literacy and Community Empowerment Program (LCEP), which has been managed by EDC in partnership with UN-Habitat since 2004 with funding from USAID. LCEP is a community development initiative that focuses on...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 30, 2005

• Orchestrating teams.

... Kathy Armitage (Karmitag@salick.com) is education and development manager for Salick Healthcare Inc.... in the Saint Vincents Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York City. Recently retired, Sandy Chlanda ...

• Training Media Review
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 2, March 2001

• Higher education and technology transfer: the effects of 'techno-sclerosis' on development.

... technological change and has become increasingly irrelevant to the reality of life in an interconne... to a problem-oriented, learner-centered framework made possible by digital technology. Glo...

• Journal of International Affairs
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 1, September 2010