2024-12-10 Learning How to Ask Questions
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you tips about how to improve your English skills. This week, Suzanne Meyer, the assistant director at the…
2024-12-03 Tips for Better Writing
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Today we continue our series of expert suggestions for academic writing. Our guest is Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of the Practice…
2024-11-26 Improve Your Pronunciation By ‘Shadowing’ Others
Many English learners can improve their pronunciation by listening carefully to native English speakers and trying to match the up-and-down movement of their sentences. That is the opinion of Marla…
2024-11-19 College Degree Remains Big Prize for Many Student-athletes
Name, image, and likeness, or NIL, deals have enabled student-athletes to make money while going to college in the United States. But outside of some big-name athletes, many say that…
2024-11-12 China Eases Pressure on Private Teaching Companies
China is quietly easing regulations on private education companies as the government aims to support a slowing economy. Government officials have not announced a policy change. But news reports say…
2024-11-05 Uncertain Time for Immigrants’ Children in School
On the first day of seventh grade in Aurora, Colorado, this past August, Alisson Ramirez worried about making friends and not understanding lessons taught in English. “I was nervous that…
2024-10-29 Program Trains Black Male Teachers for Preschools
The Leading Men Fellowship trains young Black and Latino men to become early literacy teachers in preschool classrooms across the United States. The program aims to deal with several problems…
2024-10-22 Conservatives Want to Deny Migrant Children Right to Education
For many years, children of families living in the United States illegally have had the right to attend public school based on a 1982 Supreme Court decision. The justices said…
2024-10-15 Preschools Aim to Make Students ‘Better Citizens’
Early education expert Dan Gartrell says the most important civics lesson that preschools can teach is “social democracy.” Gartrell wrote a book about teaching democracy to preschoolers. It is called…
2024-10-08 Do Students in American Schools Read Long Books Anymore?
Teachers in many English classes across America are having students read fewer full-length books. Recently, the Associated Press explored the issue in education. It reports that students instead are given…
2024-10-01 Chinese Students Shift from US to Australia, Britain
A yearly report on international study shows the number of Chinese students in the United States fell by a small amount last year. Meanwhile, a growing number of Chinese students…
2024-09-26 California Passed Law to Limit Phone Use in Schools
A new state law will soon require school districts in California to create new rules restricting student smartphone use. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the law recently. The legislation makes…
2024-09-24 US Colleges Cut Programs Because of Budget Deficits, Fewer Students
Christina Westman hoped to become a music therapist when she came to St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. But that became impossible when the college announced a plan to cut…
2024-09-17 Finnish Students Go Back to School with Books, Not Screens
This autumn, students in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books. This marks a change from recent years. For the past 10 years,…
2024-09-12 US School Shooting Raises Questions about Classroom Phone Bans
A mass shooting at an American high school has raised questions about policies restricting cellphone use in classrooms. The shooting took place September 4 at Apalachee High School in the…