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The Spring 2000 issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., marks the debut of the print version of Innovations in End-of-Life Care, EDC’s online journal for health practitioners caring for dying patients and their families.

In our 40-year history of curriculum development, we’ve learned that designing good hands-on activities often means more than writing a sound lesson plan. Sometimes you also have to design innovative materials to put in the hands of learners—or, better yet, let the learners design the materials themselves.

Beyond simple descriptions, well-developed skill standards provide a common language for employers, educators, and current and future workers in a wide variety of industries.

Carlo, a New York seventh-grader, had composed several questions for an interview his class would conduct with a local cardiologist. He and his classmates were preparing the interview for their social studies class, but they had composed the questions in science class and role-played the interview in language arts.

In the summer of 1960, reverend Solomon B Caulker, an African college administrator from Sierra Leone, travelled to Israel to attend an international conference on improving science education in developing countries. After listening to several papers on nuclear power, Caulker stood up to address the group.

After RAP, the longest-running EDC project comprises our largest body of equity work: the Women’s Educational Equity Act Resource Center (WEEA). For more than two decades, the WEEA Resource Center has developed, published, and distributed innovative, gender-fair materials to teachers and education leaders around the country.

Today, thanks to the efforts of EDC, 20 Latina mothers from Waltham, Massachusetts, are enrolled in a class that offers them not only English language instruction but also lessons in job readiness, social skills, community action, health, and self-esteem.

Written for public health practitioners and students, Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies works from the premise that in most cases “injury is not an accident”—not the result of unpredictable or unavoidable occurrences. Instead, most injuries are foreseeable events with known causes and risk factors—and are therefore preventable.

From the dry, wind-burned Andean villages where the altitude thins the air and turns the land to dust to the lush Amazon jungle regions of Bolivia, the educational story is often the same: the opportunities for learning are reduced by isolation and the demands of daily life. Thirty-eight percent of children under five suffer from malnutrition, which is associated with four out of five deaths in young children.

Community-based technology centers narrow the "digital divide" between the technology haves and have-nots by providing computer access and education to the unemployed and working poor, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF)—funded report released this month.

In a large conference room, several groups of adults gather around an assortment of batteries, copper wires, and light bulbs. Their task is to discover how many different ways they can illuminate the bulbs using only this rudimentary electrical equipment.