2007-11-08 After 40 Years, Calculators in School Still Add Up to Debate
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Can you do the math: What is one hundred times four, divided by the square root of a hundred? If you know…
2007-10-18 Colleges See Green in Sustainability Studies
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about a movement to build environmentally friendly school buildings in the United States. Today we look at the…
2007-11-01 The Many Sounds of College Radio
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. No two college radio stations sound alike. (SOUND) Some stations have a low-budget sound and students do all the work. Others, like…
2007-10-11 ‘Green’ Schools Grow Around Us
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Alexandria, Virginia, the two thousand students at T.C. Williams High School started classes last month in a new building. It was…
2007-10-04 New Civics Questions for US Citizenship Test
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What does the Constitution do? What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called? What did Susan B. Anthony do? These…
2007-09-27 The Debate Over Merit Pay for Teachers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The idea seems reasonable. Recognize better workers with extra pay. But it’s not that simple. Performance may be easy to measure in…
2007-09-13 Appalachian State in Public Eye After Win Over Michigan
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An exciting start to the college football season: A team that many people never heard of defeats one of the best in…
2007-09-20 Longer School Day = More Learning? Not Necessarily
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we talked about how some American schools have made changes in the traditional school year. Their goal is to improve student…
2007-08-30 Debating Year-Round Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we continue our discussion of school calendars as a new American school year begins. Some people say the traditional calendar of…
2007-09-06 Virginia Tech Report Criticizes Mental Health System, School Actions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee gave its findings last week about the Virginia Tech shootings in April. The committee appointed by Virginia’s governor and led…
2007-08-23 Some (Adults) Call for Shorter Summer Break for US Kids
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The traditional American school year begins in late August or early September. It ends in May or June, followed by summer vacation.…
2007-08-09 Few US Schools Now Named for People, Especially Presidents
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in New York, America’s biggest city, commonly have numbers for names. But this is unusual. In the United States, the…
2007-08-02 China, Russia Win Top Results in Physics Olympiad in Iran
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than three hundred secondary school students competed in the thirty-eighth International Physics Olympiad last month in Iran. They came from seventy-three…
2007-07-26 Specialty Summer Camps Offer Kids More Choices of Fun
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. (MUSIC) Millions of children in the United States go to summer camp. Some go to play outdoors at traditional camps in the…
2007-07-19 Evidence for School Uniform Policies in US Seen as Weak
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In nineteen ninety-nine, twelve percent of public elementary schools in the United States required students to wear uniforms. Just three years later,…