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An EDC blog on current issues in education, health, and economic opportunity
September 6, 2024
Progress toward 1 Million Youth Green Jobs: Two Years into Our World, Our Work
Melanie Sany Nada Berrada
Celebrating the accomplishments of EDC's global Moonshot Initiative to help young people secure green jobs.
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January 16, 2020
How Can We Do a Better Job at Connecting with Virtual Audiences?
In an age when a lot of our training is offered online, it is vital we use innovative techniques to connect with our virtual...
Zoe Baptista
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January 6, 2020
3 Strategies to Help Communities of Practice Flourish
I’ve found that communities of practice are a powerful approach to fostering ongoing professional learning, promoting peer mentoring, and fueling changes in practice that support continuous improvement.
Siobhan Bredin
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December 18, 2019
Now That the Vaping Sales Ban Has Ended, What Can Parents Do?
But whether you live in Massachusetts or elsewhere, you don’t have to rely on policy to protect your children from the dangers of vaping. Here are some actions you can take to keep them safe.
Shari Kessel Schneider
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December 17, 2019
What the Tech: Can Tech Help Kids Make Sense of their World?
Recently, we completed a study of public educational media that helps answer the question, “Can technology really help kids make sense of their world?”, by providing new insights into how children’s on-screen activities can impact their off-screen learning.
Naomi Hupert Megan Silander
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December 11, 2019
How Can We Support Computational Thinking in Schools?
To support administrators and teachers in thinking about what whole-school integration looks like, my colleagues and I are currently developing the CT Integration Framework .
Heather Sherwood
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December 9, 2019
Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
All students can learn how to code, and all students can enjoy programming a computer to do things that genuinely interest them.
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December 5, 2019
Supporting Students Who Are Emergent Multilingual in Mathematics Class
It’s important for teachers to carefully intertwine support for students’ language development with their mathematical learning, and mathematics class offers many fruitful opportunities to do so.
Johannah Nikula
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December 3, 2019
How Can We Include People with Disabilities in Our Work?
In commemoration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3), we want to showcase some examples of how EDC puts inclusivity at the heart of our work to improving educational and economic opportunities for children and youth around the world.
Amy Deal
Tania Tzelnic
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November 26, 2019
Translating Research into Practice in MENA
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, learning assessments indicate that children in early grades tend to master lower-order reading skills, such as letter recognition, but struggle with higher-order skills, such as reading comprehension.
Helen Boyle