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This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) intends to award approximately $485,780 (total costs) per year for one year to the Education Development Center, Inc. Waltham, Massachusetts. This is not a formal request for applications. Assistance will be provided only to the Education Development Center, Inc. based on the receipt of a satisfactory application that is approved by an independent review group. Funding Opportunity Title: SM-12-012.
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This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) intends to award a programmatic supplement of approximately $800,000 (total costs) for up to one year to the current grantee of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center program. The current grantee is the Education Development Center, Inc. in Newton, Massachusetts. This is not a formal request for applications. Assistance will be provided only to the Education Development Center, Inc. based on receipt of a satisfactory application that is approved by an independent review group. Funding Opportunity Title: SM-12-011. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.243.
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AUBURN -- Pam Prevost has joined the Auburn-Lewiston YMCA as its new School Age director.
Prevost brings experience and knowledge of child care to the Auburn-Lewiston area having worked for 12 years as the education specialist for Finders Seekers Child Care Resource Development Center at Community Concepts Inc. in Auburn and Lewiston. As education specialist, she was responsible for providing training and technical assistance to child care providers throughout Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties.
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... 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...
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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.
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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...
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... 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 ...
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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...
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... the subheadline should read Director of Education David Warren Named to Advisory Board (sted Nationa..., a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), announced today further details of i... Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Center for Bullying Prevention. As part of a larger commi... Slaby, senior scientist, Education Development Center, Inc. & Center on Media and Child Health, C...
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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.