2003-10-23 Parent-Teacher Associations
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Six-million people in the United States belong to parent-teacher associations, or PTA’s. PTA’s work to help schools and students…
2003-10-16 Homework
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Students often say their teachers give them too much homework. Now, reports by two research organizations show that in…
2003-09-25 Reading Recovery
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million school children in the United States have gone through a program called Reading Recovery. The program…
2003-10-09 Improving High School Reading and Writing
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An American expert has suggestions for helping high school students read and write better. Paul Thomas is assistant professor of education at…
2003-10-02 ‘MegaSkills’ for Children
This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Education Report. MegaSkills is a program used in schools across the United States. This program trains adults to help children develop…
2003-09-18 ‘America’s Legislators Back to School Week’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the United States, the third week of September is the observance of what is called America’s Legislators Back to School Week.…
2003-09-11 U.S. School Population Growth
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About one-in-four people age three and older in the United States is a student. The government says this new school year finds…
2003-08-28 More Male Teachers Wanted in the United States
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The National Education Association says the United States needs more male teachers. The association is the nation’s largest teachers union. Last year…
2003-09-04 Home-Schooling
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new school year has begun in America. But some children do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home, usually…
2003-08-21 Teaching Fellows
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. New York City has the largest public school system in the United States. The city Department of Education operates one-thousand-two-hundred schools. Three…
2003-08-14 New Doctorate in Chicano Studies Offered in California
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The University of California will offer the nation’s first doctoral program in Chicano studies. Chicanos are people of Mexican ancestry who live…
2003-08-07 Nontraditional Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In a few weeks, more than one million students in the United States will start their first year at a college or…
2003-07-24 Vocational Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. American educational experts are debating the future of vocational training. This kind of training provides job skills for high school students who…
2003-07-31 ‘High School Early College’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In two-thousand-one, Bard College in New York State and the New York City Board of Education created an unusual school for the…
2003-07-10 Cyberschools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About twenty-one-thousand young people in seventeen American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their elementary and high…