1. First Lady Laura Bush Lauds EDC Projects in Ghana and Haiti
2. EDC South Africa Project Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show
3. Zooming in on Math
4. An Ancient Land Goes Green
5. Preventing Suicide
6. Expanding Online Education
7. Understanding Immigrant Students
8. School Community Partnerships to Tackle Off-Campus Drinking
9. Data-Driven School Improvement

1. First Lady Laura Bush Lauds EDC Projects in Ghana and Haiti

Only 25 percent of Ghana’s students can read at grade level after six years of primary education. Working with teachers and administrators, EDC is improving school participation and instruction by introducing management reforms, improved teacher training, and more effective instructional methods. First Lady Laura Bush recently visited one of the schools taking part in this initiative.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/press_releases/ghana_visit.asp

First Lady Laura Bush saw firsthand what educators are doing throughout the impoverished island nation of Haiti to reduce a 50 percent illiteracy rate. EDC’s IDEJEN program addresses the educational and employment needs of illiterate young people ages 15–24 by providing them with basic education, life skills, and vocational training.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/press_releases/idejen.asp

2. EDC South Africa Project Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Oprah Winfrey and Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron highlighted the efforts of South African non-profit Mpilonhle to address the problem of HIV in that country. EDC works with Mpilonhle to create materials that educate adolescents about healthy behaviors.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/oprah.asp

3. Zooming in on Math

See how teachers’ classrooms are transformed through our Focus on Mathematics program. This Boston-based initiative positions educators, administrators, and mathematicians to put rigorous mathematics at the core of their teaching and learning.

View a short multimedia presentation about this program:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/closer-look/zooming-math.asp

4. An Ancient Land Goes Green

In schools and communities across Egypt, environmental education introduces experiential, active-learning methods into the classroom, and engages communities in issues and activities. EDC provides training and materials to implement the program both in and out of the classroom.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/e3op.asp

5. Preventing Suicide

In the United States, one person dies by suicide every 16 minutes. An online resource created by EDC helps health and community practitioners develop and improve suicide prevention programs and practices.

Read more:
http://hhd.org/hhdnews/hhdstories/fs_02_2008a.asp

6. Expanding Online Education

While the number of online professional development programs is growing, very little is known about their effectiveness. EDC is researching the effectiveness of these programs by studying Teachers’ Domain, a program offered by PBS for high school science teachers.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/teachers_domain.asp

EDC’s Barbara Treacy reflects on the power and potential of the Internet as a medium for educators to exchange information, engage in professional training, develop tools and courses, discuss common problems and possible solutions, and improve the quality of education in their classrooms and districts.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/Staff/btreacy.asp

7. Understanding Immigrant Students

EDC’s Costanza Eggers-Piérola has dedicated her career to helping teachers better understand and learn with their bilingual and immigrant students. She discusses ways in which the experiences, beliefs, knowledge, and skills of these students can become the keys to success in school and at work.

Read more:
http://main.edc.org/Staff/ceggers-pierola.asp

8. School Community Partnerships to Tackle Off-Campus Drinking

In USA Today Helen Stubbs of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention at EDC speaks about on the value of partnerships to prevent off-campus drinking. This newspaper article is one of several recent media stories featuring EDC work and experts.

Read our latest media coverage:
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/edcinnews.asp

9. Data-Driven School Improvement

This book, featuring chapters by EDC's Cornelia Brunner, Naomi Hupert, and Daniel Light, explores how educators use data and technology tools to achieve lasting improvement in student performance.

Learn more:
http://cct.edc.org/news_release.asp?numNewsReleaseId=103

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