EDC Update Fall 2009 (pdf, 4.06 MB)
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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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EDC evaluates a program that increases academic achievement across the board by incorporating science into the classroom.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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EDC is improving the quality of basic education across Indonesia by training kindergarten teachers to use Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) .
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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.