Education Development Center (EDC) is dedicated to transforming education to help people succeed in school, work, and life in a data-intensive world. We envision a world where everyone has the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions and achieve new insights and understandings using data.
Our data literacy and data science career pathways work is organized in two main strands:
PreK-16: transforming preK-16 classrooms through the integration of data skills and computational thinking skills into teaching and learning.
Workforce Prep: working with community colleges, big data industry experts, and career and technical educators, to help prepare students and early career professionals to succeed in the big data world.
Grounded in EDC’s long history of innovative education work, we collaborate with partners from a variety of institutions, including scientists and engineers, educators and business people, researchers and developers to:
For over 60 years, EDC has worked with partners worldwide to advance every person's journey to learn, work, and be well. Since 1958, we have been a catalyst for community-led initiatives that promote sustainable change and advance solutions to the world's most pressing challenges (explore our mission to Transform Together). Our focus on fostering data literacy and creating pathways to data science careers began with our launch of the Oceans of Data Institute (2013-2024), and continues on with our wide-ranging EDC Data Science work.
EDC is recognized for the high quality of our program and product development, research, evaluation, technical assistance, and professional and organizational development. And, we have long been a trailblazer in science education. We confront challenges collaboratively, working closely with scientists, educators, schools, and districts to create solutions that sustain meaningful change. Our field- and research-based expertise enables us to better understand how learners learn and what it takes to support learning within or outside the classroom.