During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, EDC and its partners used radio to provide lessons to students whose schools were closed due to the disease.

[10] Twice named in The Boston Globe’s 'Top Places to Work',[11] EDC maintains a staff composed of scientists, researchers, mathematicians, educators, and health and technology specialists.

Staff expertise includes research, training, policy, curriculum and materials development, as well as education technology, and their activities range from small seed projects to large-scale national and international initiatives.

[14] In 1964, ESI received funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to address the high rate of college dropout among African American students.

In the 1960s, EDC developed dozens of classroom kits and accompanying teacher guides for teaching science and mathematics in the elementary and middle grades.