2003-07-17 Alternative Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some young people in the United States attend alternative schools. These are schools that offer subject material or teaching methods that are…
2003-07-03 Foreign Students in the United States
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Foreign students are valuable to the United States. Many take part in important research. Most have to pay the full costs for…
2003-06-26 Community Service by American Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of American students take part in service programs. They help people in their communities as part of their education. They work…
2003-06-19 Bronx Guild
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A non-profit organization that holds educational adventure programs is operating a public high school in New York. The New York City Outward…
2003-06-12 Commission Finds Poor Writing in U.S. Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A report by educators in the United States says students in American schools and colleges need to write better. The National Commission…
2003-06-05 Summer School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in American schools generally attend classes from August or September until the following May or June. After that, most educational systems…
2003-05-29 Graduations
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. May and June are the months when most graduation ceremonies take place in the United States. Young people traditionally take part in…
2003-05-22 Tutoring
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Traditionally, children in the United States have often gotten help with schoolwork from parents, grandparents and older sisters and brothers. This still…
2003-05-15 Iraqi Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The United States Agency for International Development, U-S-A-I-D, has begun a project to rebuild education in Iraq. Some Iraqi schools have started…
2003-05-01 SARS and Overseas Study
(In the May 1 script, the Council on International Educational Exchange was misidentified as another organization, the Institute of International Education. A corrected version follows.) This is the VOA Special…
2003-05-08 Teacher of the Year
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A schoolteacher from the American state of Alabama will spend the next year as an international ambassador for education. Betsy Rogers was…
2003-04-24 Teacher Certification
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For many years American colleges and universities have prepared the nation’s teachers. Students who want to teach must study special subjects toward…
2003-03-13 Foreign Student Series – 26. MIT
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today, in week twenty-six of our Foreign Student Series, we tell about an American university that is famous for training scientists. That…
2003-03-20 Foreign Student Series – 27. Purdue University
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series of reports for students around the world who want to attend a college or university in the United…
2003-03-06 Foreign Student Series – 25. USC
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. We continue our series of reports about how students from others countries can attend an American college or university. This week, we…