2004-08-26 Charter Schools
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many American children are preparing to return to school following summer vacation. Most American students go to traditional public…
2004-08-12 Computer-Graded Writing
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Last year, a report by a committee of education experts said a lot of American students cannot write well.…
2004-08-05 Duke University’s iPod Experiment
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Duke University in Durham, North Carolina recently announced a campaign to increase creative uses of technology in education. The…
2004-07-29 Helping Poor Students Go to College
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than twenty years ago, a successful American businessman made a promise to a group of twelve-year-old students in…
2004-07-22 Summer School in the U.S.
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we discussed the idea of year-round schools. Students do not get a long break from classes during the…
2004-07-15 Educational Camps
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of American children attend summer camp. Most summer camps teach swimming and sports. But some are designed to…
2004-07-08 Study Gives High Marks to Teach for America
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Teach for America is a program that has provided more than ten thousand teachers to schools across the country.…
2004-07-01 Shorter School Week
This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, the Education Report discussed schools that operate all year round with shorter holidays in the summer. This…
2004-06-24 Year-round School
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many American schools have closed for the summer. Most children in the United States have a summer holiday of…
2004-06-17 International Children’s Digital Library
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Looking for a good children’s book? Internet users can find hundreds of them. These books are from around the…
2004-06-10 Learning to Read
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. For most American children, summer is a time away from schoolbooks. But it is not supposed to be a…
2004-06-03 Graduation Speakers
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. May and June are the months when most American high schools and colleges hold their graduation ceremonies. Elementary and…
2004-05-27 Electronic Games in Education
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. For some educators, there is nothing wrong with fun and games. A group called the Education Arcade recently held…
2004-05-20 Student Winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. High school students from more than forty countries gathered last week in the American Northwest. They took part in…
2004-05-13 Intel Excellence in Science Teaching Awards
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Five high school teachers are the winners of an international award from the computer technology company Intel in the…