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Community-level programs are often at a loss when their funding ends. How can they continue to offer services to clients? What aspects of their programs should they work hardest to sustain?

Because of its success in helping vulnerable children in Thailand, EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs’ (HHD) Regional HIV/AIDS Project funded by Deutsche Bank has been extended to parts of Cambodia and Vietnam where the number of children orphaned by AIDS is on the rise and 95 percent of all HIV infections are among people between the ages of 15 and 49.

To establish these newer skill standards, EDC staff analyzed 10 biomanufacturing jobs, gathering information through a series of workshops held at EDC and NHCTC for people currently employed at biotechnology companies.

In an effort to provide more choices and expanded educational opportunities to their clients, many community technology centers (CTCs) are turning to online learning. ACC recently spoke with two programs funded under the Department of Education CTC grant program that provide online courses as part of their program offerings. These experiences capture both the promises and pitfalls of online learning and show its potential to complement the great work CTCs across the country are already doing.

By 2015 and in accordance with Education for All (EFA), the Government of Honduras seeks to have 50 percent of its pre-school age population in school. Currently, less than a third of preschool age children are able to attend pre-primary institutions, most of which were private.

Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the Arab world, a society where literacy rates for girls and women run as low as 30%, while poverty rates are correspondingly high. In a bold pilot project beginning this September, USAID will wire 24 Yemeni high schools to the Internet for the first time. EDC and its partners iEARN and World Links, will train teachers to use the new technology as well as conduct research on the impact of the initiative, notably on the experience of girls.

Bullying and other forms of violence—from fighting to weapon use—can happen in any school in any community. In most cases, there are bystanders who see violence happening and hear about it before it occurs.

According to a study released this week by SRI International and EDC, an overwhelming majority of grade 6-12 teachers and students in the Henrico County, Virginia public school district have benefited from the use of laptop computers.

This pilot project is designed to gauge the success of applying a versatile video compact disc (VCD) technology to meet critical learning needs of young girls who cross the Mekong in search of a more exciting and financially rewarding life in Thailand.

This article is excerpted from Rigor, Collaboration, and Care: Two Decades of HIV/AIDS Prevention Research (2003), produced by EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs. It describes the development of culturally sensitive educational videos that have produced positive behavior changes among African American and Latino men and women.

“Good early child care programs build on what each child brings to the center—in terms of culture, language, and experiences,” says EDC’s Costanza Eggers-Piérola. “But how do non-Latino staff reach out to Latino families? How do they reinforce early literacy skills among non-English-speaking children? How do they attract and support Latino staff members?”

The face of America is changing more rapidly and more dramatically than most observers had ever predicted. A preliminary analysis of the 2000 census revealed a more rapid growth among our nation’s minority population than was earlier predicted and a dramatic slow-down in growth among the majority population.

College students, alcohol use, and cars create a deadly combination. The U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, housed at EDC, has published Safe Lanes on Campus: A Guide for Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking. The publication, which is available online, in print, and on CD, describes “environmental management strategies” that can change the climate on campuses and in their surrounding communities to deter driving under the influence and high-risk and illegal alcohol use.

As Coordinator for Middle Grades Education in Georgia, Joanne Lee travels across her state, presenting to teachers, principals, and superintendents about what successful middle grades education looks like and how they can create high performing middle schools in their own districts. In this work, Lee has come to rely on the new Leadership Training Curriculum produced by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform.