2011-10-06 Saving a School, and Its History
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Harrington School is an old one-room schoolhouse in the American state of Georgia. The building has not been used in years.…
2011-09-01 American Music Students in Kenya
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Current and former students from Berklee College of Music in Boston recently returned to the United States after three weeks in Kenya.…
2011-08-18 Dallas Creates a Public School for Boys
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Girls and boys usually attend classes together in American public schools. But there are some single-sex programs, like a girls public school…
2011-08-25 Coming to Terms With Academic Titles at US Colleges
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not everyone who teaches in a college or university is a professor. Many are instructors or lecturers. In fact, not even all…
2011-08-04 An Archive of English, Spoken in Many Different Accents
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Steven Weinberger is the director of linguistics in the English Department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Weinberger says students…
2011-08-11 How Much Should a Teacher’s Job Depend on Test Scores?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in Washington, DC, will return to classrooms this month to begin a new school year. But at least five percent of…
2011-07-28 Nick Jonas’ Lesson for Other Teen Musicians
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one hundred teenage musicians recently attended a summer camp in Los Angeles to learn about the music business. Some of…
2011-07-14 For Some Teens, a Busy Life Takes Fun Out of High School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For years the University of California, Los Angeles, has done a national survey of first-year college students. Some of the questions in…
2011-07-21 Economic Forces Push Spanish to Learn English
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Spain is struggling with a recession. More than one in five Spaniards are out of work. Unemployment is the highest of the…
2011-07-07 Inmates Find Hope in College Classes at San Quentin Prison
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week we told you about a prison training program in the American Northwest. It teaches women in prison to start their…
2011-06-30 Women Inmates Train to Start Businesses After Prison
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Getting a job can be especially difficult for someone with a prison record. So a prison training program in the American Northwest…
2011-06-23 Girls Lacrosse Team Raises Hopes at School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Ballou High School in Washington might not seem the mostly likely school to have a lacrosse team. (SOUND) But lacrosse has grown…
2011-06-16 No National Standards – A Strength or Weakness of US Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What American students are expected to learn has long been different from state to state. We talked last time about the tradition…
2011-06-09 Should All Students in US Learn the Same Things?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than forty of the fifty American states have approved what are known as the common core state standards. These are lists…
2011-06-02 Lecture or Interactive Teaching? Old Issue, New Study
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Professors have lectured for centuries. But how effective is lecturing to students compared to working with them? A new study compared two…