EDC Update Summer 2010

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  • Sudan Radio Service, which delivers objective news, education programs, and music throughout southern Sudan, is building a new radio station in the city of Juba.

  • Facing a shortage in skilled labor, the Turkish Cypriot community turns to EDC to help improve vocation and technical education.

  • Equipping mathematics teachers with skills and strategies helps them overcome language barriers to reaching their English-learning students.

  • An EDC professional development program helps teachers create interdisciplinary lessons that also build their students’ literacy skills.

  • As students face their options after high school, they have many questions. A new online course helps school counselors answer these questions and create a college-going culture.

  • Community college students must build their IT skills to be competitive in the workforce, and EDC has developed resources to help ensure that they are proficient when they graduate.

  • Across the United States, there is a growing interest in a new approach that sheds light on preventing child abuse and maltreatment.

  • Through daily text messages about current market prices, technology is transforming the way a group of Indian farmers does business.

  • EDC will co-host an international conference on mental health this year, the sixth gathering of this “one of a kind” forum.

  • EDC’s Ron Slaby is an international leader in youth violence prevention who believes “Bullying can be prevented.”

  • Shelley Pasnik is a leader in studying how students, educators, and schools make the most effective use of technology. Based in EDC’s New York office, she recently returned from a trip to India.