Partnerships
Education Development Center, Inc.
EDC is an international, non-profit organization with more than 335 projects dedicated to enhancing learning, promoting health, and fostering a deeper understanding of the world. EDC’s work engages nearly every facet of society, including early child development, K-12 education, health promotion, workforce preparation, community development, learning technologies, basic and adult education, institutional reform, and social justice. EDC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Projects at EDC address critical challenges around the world in education, health, technology and human rights. EDC is committed to education that builds knowledge and skill, makes possible a deeper understanding of the world, and engages learners as active, problem-solving participants.
EDC inspires sustainable change around the world by:
- Bridging research and practice.
- EDC's innovative solutions combine the creativity and rigors of research with the realities of practical experience. Each project grows out of current knowledge in the field, and each new tool or approach is informed by extensive pilot-testing and evaluation.
- Pursuing comprehensive solutions.
- It does not work to confront substance abuse or violence without addressing their causes, or to focus on academic skills while ignoring children's health and the conditions of the communities in which they live. The problems EDC addresses are systemic and complex. EDC strives to focus simultaneously on the individual pieces of the puzzle and the puzzle as a whole.
- Collaborating.
- EDC specializes in fostering collaboration among people with diverse skills and viewpoints. People working effectively in groups are often capable of greater vision and creativity than individuals working alone. Internally, EDC is a community of scientists and mathematicians, health professionals and health educators, teachers, administrators, and community organizers, artists, writers, and researchers. Externally, EDC builds collaborations across countries, cultures, generations, classes, and professions.
- Focusing on questions that matter in people's lives.
- Learning begins with questions: a teacher wanting to know a new way to solve a mathematics problem; a doctor wondering how to ease the transition for the family of a dying patient; a teenager wanting to know why school matters in life and career; a principal searching for better ways to meet the needs of students with disabilities; a mother considering whether to breastfeed. Over the decades, EDC's projects have helped people raise and explore questions of importance in their lives and develop responses that address their strengths, needs, and concerns.
Areas of Work
- Supporting Children & Families
- Promoting Health
- Improving School
- Building Communities
- Integrating Work & Learning
For more information please visit www.edc.org
