Media Coverage

What does it mean to be ‘data literate’? What should schools be teaching students about big data to prepare them for the workforce? For answers to these questions, EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators that has issued a new report, Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue, and a call to action to expand data literacy skills in schools.

EDC's Carrie Parker and Claudia Rinaldi of Lasell College have suggestions for teaching all English learners who struggle in the classroom.

Hospitals need to provide optimal care for patients at risk for suicide but, too often, myths surrounding suicide impede prevention efforts.

A new report from EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute calls for developing resources, training teachers, and making sure data literacy is incorporated into educational standards, with the goal of bringing data literacy to 100 million students by 2021.

An editorial in Rwanda’s leading English daily newspaper focused on the efforts of an EDC-sponsored literacy conference and work of the EDC Literacy, Language, and Learning Initiative to encourage a culture of reading.

EDC organized an early-grade literacy conference in Kigali, Rwanda, which featured EDC efforts to advance a culture of reading in that country.

EDC’s Mort Silverman discusses new research into the financial costs associated with suicide.

An EDC study was the first to link raising the tobacco sales age to reduced rates of teen smoking. EDC’s Shari Kessel Schneider says the study has helped draw attention to the public health benefits of raising the age.