2010-07-15 In Treating Athletes, Is Trainer’s Sex an Issue? Sometimes It Is
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One job of an athletic trainer is to treat injured athletes. But does it make a difference if the trainer is male…
2010-07-08 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of high school students have read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The novel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice…
2010-08-05 Muslim College Opens in US With Hopes and Suspicions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Zaytuna College is a new four-year college in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna is seeking to become the first accredited Muslim college in the…
2010-07-29 For-Profit Colleges in US May Face Tests on Federal Student Aid
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama wants the United States to have the world’s highest rate of college graduates. But his administration also wants stronger rules…
2010-08-12 Obama Signs Spending Bill to Protect Teachers’ Jobs
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare. The measure includes ten billion…
2010-09-09 How Failure Can Lead to Long-Lasting Knowledge
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. No one likes to make mistakes. But a new study says organizations learn more from their failures than their successes, and keep…
2010-09-02 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…
2010-09-16 Women Edge Past Men in Doctorates in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the United States, about six out of ten students in graduate schools are women. The same is true of today’s young…
2010-09-30 For Some, Free Citizenship Classes; For Others, a Dream Delayed Again
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans talk a lot about illegal immigration but not as much about legal immigration. Legal immigrants who want to become citizens must…
2010-09-23 Peace Corps Volunteers Find a Wired World
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Next year, the Peace Corps will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Peace Corps volunteers are Americans who teach and work on projects in…
2010-10-07 Early Classes = Sleepy Teens Duh
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Surveys of American teenagers find that about half of them do not get enough sleep on school nights. They get an average…
2010-10-21 What Next for Michelle Rhee and Her School Reform Campaign?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Michelle Rhee had never led a school system before she came to the public schools in Washington in two thousand seven. By…
2010-08-19 For ‘Cabaret Stars of Tomorrow,’ a Chance to Train Now
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. (MUSIC: “Cabaret”) The word cabaret brings to mind images of singers in nightclubs, or maybe Liza Minnelli performing years ago in the…
2009-07-30 US States Will Compete for School Reform Aid
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Obama administration is launching a national competition called Race to the Top. States will compete for more than four billion dollars…
2009-08-13 The Life of a School Nurse? Busy
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we discussed a new study of injuries in physical education classes in American schools. The number of students taken to…