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Robin Fies stands at the blackboard in a small auditorium at Watertown High School in Massachusetts as 16 teenagers pass through the door and take their seats. In her 30 years of teaching high school mathematics, Fies has seen just about every classroom configuration possible, from lectures and rows to small groups to the open classroom. But today her precalculus class looks different than it ever has before.
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Generating classroom discussions with high school students can be arduous work, requiring both careful planning and quick thinking. EDC’s Center for Science Education has developed an online course focused on helping teachers pose questions and manage classroom discussions that are both more engaging for students and more scientific in substance.
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In these reflections on the changing face of high schools, Cheryl King draws on her 30-year career in urban public education.
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The Indian state government of Chhattisgarh has expanded an EDC-developed interactive radio instruction initiative (IRI) to reach approximately one million children. The program is part of a two-state radio initiative that involves 7 million children in more than 80,000 schools.
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The Decentralized Basic Education Program Objective 2 (DBE 2) is funded by USAID and aims to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Indonesia’s public and private sector primary schools.
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Video game technology in the classroom has the potential to engage the least motivated students, according to participants in a recent live webcast held by EDC’s Center for Media and Community (CMC).
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Improving the quality of teaching and professional development for early childhood educators is the focus of two new grants awarded to EDC by the U.S. Department of Education. The awards, which total about $4 million, were issued to EDC’s
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EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) is extending its work in youth substance abuse prevention and treatment through a new partnership with the local MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation.
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Many of the more than eight million college students in the United States are faced with health and safety issues related to heavy use of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, violence and injury, and the full range of mental health problems. These issues include hate crimes, vandalism, high-risk sexual practices, academic failure, and suicide.
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For students who are struggling with math, finding exciting and engaging ways to interest them in the subject and help them succeed can be a difficult task. There is no shortage of web sites and software packages that help students practice their skills, but these can often lead to frustration for students. Integrating math with other disciplines into hands-on, project-based learning activities can transform math from a daunting and overwhelming subject to an approachable and practical set of skills.
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A seventh grade student in a rural middle school is looking for ways to combine his love of art with his curiosity about computers. A young girl from East Texas searches for more information about the clothes that astronauts wear for an industrial design project. A boy in an urban neighborhood wants to follow up on a recent science lesson by learning more about amoebas.
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In response to the prevalence of teen dating abuse and the importance of the issue described by teens themselves, Liz Claiborne, Inc. has funded EDC to create a high school curriculum, the Love Is Not Abusecurriculum, to educate and provide support and guidance to teens.
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High in the Peruvian Andes a grassroots movement supporting gender equity has taken hold. Led by a group of primary school students and their teachers, the community of Cerro de Pasco is taking a closer look at the implications of equal treatment and rights for men and women in the public and private spheres.
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Increasing numbers of people in different walks of life and professional roles are being confronted with the need to help others who are contemplating or attempting suicide as awareness and understanding of depression and suicide is growing. Friends, family members, teachers, and mental health and health care professionals are among the many people who are concerned about how they can prevent the suicide of someone they know.
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Academy-award winning actor Tom Hanks has donated $50,000 to the Freeplay Foundation. The foundation will use the donation to purchase 1,000 Lifeline radios for a primary school distance education program in Tanzania developed by EDC’s International Education Systems Division.
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When a mother is arrested, taken from her home in handcuffs, what happens to the children left behind? If the father is absent, who will ensure that the children are safe and provided for?
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In order to integrate more active methods into the student learning process, USAID-funded EDC has focused its work in Guinea on interactive and student-centered learning.
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The needs of teachers and the technological sophistication of web developers are often at cross purposes on the Internet, leaving many educators frustrated in their hunt for online materials and Web developers vexed that few teachers use their sites.
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Across the country more than 30 projects are introducing middle school science teachers and students to the wide range of careers available in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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A new regional campaign aims to influence decision-makers and practitioners in the education sector to take action regarding HIV/AIDS. On February 16, 2005, EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) and UNESCO’s Office for the Caribbean launched the new “Campaign on Advocacy and Leadership to Advance the Caribbean Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS” in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Bernie Zubrowski, a senior scientist at EDC’s Center for Science Education, has been recently recognized, both nationally and regionally, for his distinguished contributions to the world of children’s science education.
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When EDC’s Ruby Midkiff began working as a site coordinator at the Martin Luther King (MLK) Middle School in Monroe, Louisiana, it was a safe, orderly, and “healthy” school with an optimistic outlook. The school recognized its essential strengths—a strong principal and excellent teachers—but it also had identified serious weaknesses.
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Incidents of heat-related death of young children in parked vehicles are not isolated events. They occur throughout the warm months each year in the United States. About three-quarters of these deaths are due to adults leaving children unattended, either intentionally or unintentionally. Now, for the first time, a peer-reviewed study has been published that documents the circumstances under which young children die in parked motor vehicles.
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In conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the Digital Divide Network (DDN), EDC’s Center for Media & Community has launched a new interactive Web site for activists working to bridge the digital divide. The new Digital Divide Network Web site provides a unique, free online space for technology advocates, Internet activists, educators, and policymakers to collaborate with each other.
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First Lady Laura Bush visited the EDC-operated Women’s Teacher Training Institute in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. Accompanied by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, Mrs. Bush was traveling with a delegation of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, which aims to strengthen partnerships between the two nations, especially to promote education for women. While at the Institute, Mrs. Bush participated in a roundtable discussion with students and teachers.
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In the book, I Read it, but I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers, Cris Tovani tells the story of her transformation from a struggling adolescent reader to a high school reading teacher.
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For more than thirty years, Paul Goldenberg has worked on the front lines of the “math wars,” watching as educators, researchers, and communities battle over the relative merits of competing approaches to mathematics education: Traditional “drill and practice” instruction versus “reform math”; back-to-basics versus “Standards-based” methods.
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More than 75 percent of teachers use the Internet every day for instructional purposes. Are they finding what they need? Are they equipped to integrate it into their classes? Do the materials improve the quality of instruction? These are some questions that EDC’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT) addresses in a new report on a PBS Web site called In Search of Shakespeare.
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How do you reach the 70 million adults in America in need of literacy education when most cannot attend a class because of a job, a lack of transportation, or childcare? If you are the Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA), you tap the popularity of television and develop fun programs with celebrities, athletes and actors to capture viewer interest. You include topics that teach useful skills, like reading a lease or comparing cell phone plans, and you broadcast widely to accommodate non-traditional schedules.
Articles
Each month, EDC posts several new feature articles. This page provides an archive of past articles, including reports of emerging research and profiles of new EDC publications and Web sites.
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