Educational Television and Radio
EDC has a long history of developing educational programs for public television and radio, including a number of collaborations with PBS. We create original content for on-air broadcasts (television and radio), produce companion resource guides (online and in print), and serve as evaluators on various educational programs and related Web sites. Our work spans the age range of early learners to adults and includes partnerships with broadcasters in the US and abroad.
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Adult Literacy
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The
Adult Literacy Media
Alliance's (ALMA) mission is to help adults gain basic reading, writing, and math skills. ALMA creates innovative, educationally sound, and entertaining television-based teaching materials and cultivates community networks to support ALMA learners. TV411, ALMA's magazine-format television series (with ancillary print materials and an instructional Web site) is aired on more than 100 stations nationwide.
Read a feature article about ALMA. 
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Television in the Classroom |
Commissioned by PBS, Television Goes to School focuses on key questions concerning the relationship of television to learning, and provides examples drawn from current television research to demonstrate television’s effect on student achievement. A set of practical recommendations are also provided so that broadcasters and educators can maximize the effectiveness of video in the classroom.
Download a copy of this report (A PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat). |
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Peep and the Big Wide World |
EDC's Center for Science Education (CSE) provided content direction to begin development of this daily half-hour series for the preschool and kindergarten public television audience.
Read an interview with Karen Worth, a senior scientist at EDC and science advisor to the show. |
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PBS Parents Web site |
EDC's Center for Children & Families (CC&F) developed and launched a major section of the PBS Parents Web site that helps parents promote the language and literacy development of their children from birth through age 8. CC&F continues to add resources and further articles on language and literacy related topics, such as parent-child book clubs and using computers with young children.
Visit the PBS Parents Web site.
Read a feature article about the PBS Parent's Web site. |
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PBS Teachers' Domain Web site |
With support from the Ford Foundation, PBS commissioned the Center for Children & Technology (CCT) to conduct research on its Teachers' Domain Web site, a free online collection of multimedia resources for K-12 teachers and students.
Download a copy of this report (A PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat).
Visit the Teachers' Domain Web site (registration required).
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Independent News Service
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Due to a long civil war, the people of Sudan have been denied access to impartial news sources. EDC, with funding from USAID, has developed the Sudan Independent Radio Service (SIRS) to provide the Sudanese population with unbiased information on the country's Peace Process and on such subjects as nutrition, civic rights, agriculture and culture. The project will also recruit and train Sudanese radio producers and journalists.
Learn more about SIRS.
Listen to SIRS broadcasts.
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