2013-10-10 US-China College Partnership
From VOA Learning English this is the Education Report. American colleges and universities are setting up satellite campuses with Chinese schools to reach new students. In June, Wellesley College, a…
2013-10-03 Restorative Justice for Youthful Offenders
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The path to prison often starts at a young age. One way to keep young offenders out of the criminal justice…
2013-09-26 Civil War Keeps Many Syrian Children From School
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) is appealing to international donors to help provide education money for Syrian school children. Safe places…
2013-09-12 NASA Launching Balloons Over Saint Louis to Study Ozone
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Students at Saint Louis University are launching weather balloons into the sky above St. Louis, Missouri. The United States space agency…
2013-09-05 Admission Standards Toughened at University of Liberia
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Entrance examinations have been causing problems and confusion at the University of Liberia in Monrovia. The exams help to decide whom…
2013-08-01 Togolese Academics Fight for Linguistic Heritage
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Experts estimate that by the end of the century, half of the 6,000 languages spoke on our planet will have disappeared.…
2013-07-25 Young Taliban Victim Calls for Children’s Education Rights
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Malala Yousafzai spoke to hundreds of young people at the United Nations On Jule 12. It was her first public speech…
2013-07-18 Build a School in Burma
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Burma also known as Myanmar, is one of the poorest countries in the world. United Nations says people there earn an…
2013-07-11 Hunger Costs Ethiopian Economy Billions Of Dollars
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. A new study shows that child hunger costs Ethiopia billions of dollars a year in economic losses. The research showed that…
2013-07-04 US Supreme Court Avoids Ruling on Affirmative Action Case
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Reaction appears mixed to a recent United States Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in university admissions. Affirmative action in admissions…
2013-06-27 US Lawmakers Debate Education Issues
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Lawmakers in Washington are debating education issues, including the interest rates that students pay for loans. College students who take loans…
2013-06-20 Music Inspires Students to be Creative
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Kid Pan Alley is a non-profit organization that holds songwriting workshops for students across the nation. The organization recently visited a…
2013-05-23 President Obama to visit Manor New Technology High School in Texas
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. An unusual high school in Texas recently welcomed a special visitor. President Obama visited Manor New Technology High…
2013-05-30 Kenya’s Pledge to Provide Every First-year Student with a Laptop
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Kenya’s recently elected President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised free laptop computers to every first-year student in the Country Schools. But some…
2013-06-13 Online Classes might Revolutionize Colleges
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. American colleges face what some people are calling a “perfect storm” of problems, college costs are rising, there are not enough…