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Through the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, EDC provides training and technical assistance in substance abuse prevention to states, local communities, tribes, and jurisdictions.
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Early childhood education program directors and their staffs in four New England states now have a significant new resource in the form of training and technical assistance service centers.
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A new curriculum designed by EDC is preparing youth for futures in the arts, media, and entertainment industry while meeting the academic standards needed for college.
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A professional development program helps educators connect science and math concepts across grades.
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With guidance from the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands, educators navigate complex research and practices to help U.S. schools.
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Cornelia Janke just returned from her 10th trip to Haiti, where EDC is working to improve job opportunities for youth. It’s an enormous challenge in a country with 70 percent unemployment.
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EDC is improving the quality of basic education across Indonesia by training kindergarten teachers to use Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) .
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A Year after it ended, an EDC project in India that used tourism to engage youth in income-generating, health promoting, and community development activities, is continuing to have an impact.
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Corrupt educational practices can harm the quality of students’ education, the reputation of a country’s institutions of higher learning, and the preparedness of a nation’s workforce. EDC is addressing the issue in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
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Jerry Reed is the director of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) at EDC. SPRC collaborates with other organizations to develop tools and training programs for practitioners and community advocates. SPRC also serves as a clearing-house for information and resources based on best practices.
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An EDC program is developing a network of support for patients and families as they cope with an illness that requires continual care.
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EDC with leading emergency department doctors and nurses developed “Is Your Patient Suicidal?” a simple, quick checklist that is used in hundreds of hospitals across the country today.
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EDC is making Botswana history by implementing the country’s first required HIV and AIDS awareness curriculum called Living: Skills for Life, Botswana’s Window of Hope.
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In More than Title IX, women and men who have spent their lives and careers working to achieve gender equity in classrooms and communities describe how hard-won changes in education have improved life in America over the past century.
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EDC evaluates a program that increases academic achievement across the board by incorporating science into the classroom.
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An EDC program that integrates the arts into the curriculum is making school more culturally relevant to students.
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For young adults in EDC’s international workforce training programs, the results rarely go unnoticed—the proof is in the paychecks.
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EDC and its partners distributed nearly 50,000 free copies of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to classrooms in more than 700 elementary schools in the war-torn region of Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines.
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EDC collaborates with the University of California, Berkeley, to develop youth worker safety training materials for students, teachers, and businesses that hire teenagers. Chris Miara conducted trainings in New Jersey, the Virgin Islands, and Georgia on youth and workplace hazards.
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New study shows that radio is successfully reaching children in remote corners of the world.
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Middle school students participating in EDC afterschool program head outside to explore, study, draw, and photograph various tree species and pond organisms.
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Technology center revives Macedonian apparel industry and continues to prosper three years after the EDC project is complete.
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The Lorain City Schools teamed up with EDC to establish six magnet school programs that integrated arts into seven of the city’s middle and elementary school classrooms and new labs.
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A biology program that involves collecting insect DNA is teaching students to think and act like scientists.
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The Mathematics Leadership Program provides professional development for teachers, math coaches, and administrators to help students make sense of mathematics.
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As a project director in EDC’s International Development Division, Helen Boyle’s work has taken her across the Middle East and Northern Africa.
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As more military service members return from Iraq and Afghanistan with pressing mental health needs, the Department of Veterans Affairs and others are stepping up to assist.
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Working with EDC program, nursing home staffs and family members can address the increased risk of suicide among older adults.
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A recent survey of principals from 25 countries revealed that school leaders estimate one in five students requires treatment or other mental health services to help them cope with the issues they face.
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In Indonesia, a traditional form of dance is being used to teach earthquake safety.
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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