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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
2007-07-12 Students Do Not Always Like Being Told What to Wear (Duh!)
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener in Fukuoka, Japan, Shinji Abe, would like to know about…
2007-07-05 Historic Antioch College Faces an Unsure Future
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a private liberal-arts school with…
2005-11-17 American Schools Celebrate International Education Week
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. It is International Education Week in the United States, a…
2008-04-10 Searching for Better Ways to Teach Math in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee has released its final report on ways to improve math…
2008-04-03 New Study Adds to Evidence That Too Many Americans Do Not Finish High School
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. A new report says only about half of all students in the…
2008-03-27 In Some Schools, Learning Is Not Enough of Its Own Reward
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some American schools pay teachers more if their students improve on tests.…
2008-03-20 Three Schools for the Learning Disabled
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we complete our series on learning disabilities. In the United States,…
2008-03-13 A Way to Help Students Before They Fail
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Now, we continue our series on learning disabilities. We look this week…
2007-06-21 Foreign Student Series – 42. A Look at Washington University in St. Louis
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A student at Xinjiang Normal University in China has a question for…
2007-06-28 Foreign Student Series – 43. School Ends, and So Too Does Our Foreign Student Series
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Summer means the end of another school year in America. May and…