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EDC Update Fall 2006

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  • Financial Literacy

    EDC’s Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) recently received funding from the NASD Investor Education Foundation to produce a half-hour television program and curriculum designed to increase money management skills and knowledge. The materials, aimed at adults with a 5th to 8th grade reading level, will be broadcast on TV411, ALMA’s Emmy award-winning, nationally broadcast television series.

  • Mentors for Adjudicated Youth in Cleveland

    When describing the training program he has designed to prepare people to work as mentors for youth in the juvenile justice system, Joe Ippolito uses some expected terms, like support and nurture. But he is just as likely to lead with terms like challenge and agitate.

  • EDC Works with Hartford Schools

    EDC has begun work to help ensure that special education students with disabilities in Hartford, Connecticut, are getting the services they need.

  • EDC's Teen Dating Violence Curriculum Hailed by U.S. Senators

    Concerned about dating abuse among American teenagers, U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) held a Washington press conference this spring to announce national distribution of Love Is Not Abuse, a curriculum developed by EDC for Liz Claiborne, Inc. Created by EDC’s Christine Blaber, with input from educators and a national advisory board, the program helps ninth graders recognize, respond to, and seek help for their friends and peers who may be victims of abuse.

  • EDC and the American Cancer Society Offer Training Worldwide

    An estimated 70 percent of the six million cancer deaths globally occur in developing countries. To help control cancer, staff from EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs are working with the American Cancer Society and have developed modules for an international curriculum. The curriculum has already reached 245 cancer control leaders from 62 countries around the globe ranging from Nigeria to Mexico to India.

  • Combating HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

    Preventing HIV/AIDS is the goal of EDC’s partnership with the University of the West Indies. EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) is strengthening the capacity of educators by promoting advocacy and leadership development to address prevention, voluntary counseling and testing, and care and bereavement.

  • Success for Schools in Rhode Island

    EDC’s work with eight Rhode Island middle and high schools to improve student performance on state standardized tests has produced initial successes, according to Leslie Hergert of EDC’s Center for Family, School, and Community.

  • Enlivening High School Science

    What caused the Hindenburg to explode? What happens if a runner drinks too much water during a race? How do you know if a powdery white substance is anthrax? These are some of the questions that ninth grade chemistry students wrestle with in Foundation Science, a new high school science curriculum developed by EDC.

  • K–5 Students Will Soon Think Math!

    After almost five years of research and testing in 150 classrooms with more than 3,500 students, EDC is launching a new K–5 mathematics curriculum. Think Math! developed by EDC’s Division of Mathematics Learning and Teaching, will be published in January 2007 by Harcourt School Publishers.

  • Test Scores Lead Government of Tanzania to Offer EDC Program

    Child laborers in Tanzania who participated in EDC’s radio-based education program, Mambo Elimu, performed as well as students in the state-run public school system on recent standard national exams. The positive scores in grade four have convinced the Tanzanian government to take up the program now that initial funding from the U.S. Department of Labor has ended.

  • EDC in Indonesia: Improving Teaching and Learning

    EDC’s initiative to decentralize and revitalize Indonesia’s schools by improving the quality of teaching has taken root in 535 schools and will ultimately include more than 2,000 schools in the world’s fourth most populous country. The USAID-funded project, Decentralized Basic Education 2 (DBE2), is moving schools away from a rote-memorization tradition to a more “interactive approach with students working together on projects,” says EDC’s seven provinces.”

  • EDC Project Will "Open Many Doors" for Teens in Haiti

    EDC is working to assist thousands of out-of-school young people in Haiti who are living on the streets, in domestic servitude, or with families too poor to provide them an education.

  • Two Initiatives Feature Ford PAS

    The Ford PAS program, an interdisciplinary high school program developed by Ford Motor Company Fund in collaboration with EDC, is the anchor of two new initiatives designed to help prepare students for careers in fields such as business, engineering, math, science, and technology.

  • Up Close with Mike Laflin, EDC Senior Vice President

    Mike Laflin directs EDC’s International Development Division (IDD), based in Washington, D.C. IDD, which employs approximately 400 staff in 26 countries, is a leader in the use of technology to address issues of access and quality in learning. IDD is also implementing national educational reform programs in several countries. A former teacher in England and Kenya, Laflin has three decades of experience in international development. He has been at EDC since 1992.