EDC Update Summer 2010 (pdf, 5.62 MB)
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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.
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Facing a shortage in skilled labor, the Turkish Cypriot community turns to EDC to help improve vocation and technical education.
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Equipping mathematics teachers with skills and strategies helps them overcome language barriers to reaching their English-learning students.
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An EDC professional development program helps teachers create interdisciplinary lessons that also build their students’ literacy skills.
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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.
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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.
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EDC’s Ron Slaby is an international leader in youth violence prevention who believes “Bullying can be prevented.”
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Across the United States, there is a growing interest in a new approach that sheds light on preventing child abuse and maltreatment.
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Through daily text messages about current market prices, technology is transforming the way a group of Indian farmers does business.
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EDC will co-host an international conference on mental health this year, the sixth gathering of this “one of a kind” forum.
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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.