2002-11-07 Foreign Student Series – 08. Tests
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our reports about how foreign students can attend an American college or university. This information also can be found on…
2002-05-09 Privatization of Public Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last month, a state committee voted to give control of forty-two public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to seven private companies, organizations and…
2002-05-23 Teach for America
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teach for America is one of the nation’s most successful educational programs. This year, a record fourteen-thousand recent college graduates have asked…
2002-05-30 Single-Sex Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. There are many private schools in the United States that accept only boys or only girls. But there are only eleven single-sex…
2002-05-16 Home Schooling
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home. Most often, their parents…
2002-05-02 Teacher of the Year
This is the Special English Education Report. A social studies teacher from the state of California has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year. President Bush presented the…
2002-04-25 Learning to Read
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One of the most important issues in American education is how to teach children to read. Currently, American public and private schools…