2012-07-05 Cambodians Get Lessons in Skateboarding
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. (SOUND) Some young Cambodians are learning a new sport — skateboarding. The country’s first skateboard park is located on the grounds of…
2012-06-21 Conflicts Keep Millions of Children Out of School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Conflicts around the world are keeping tens of millions of young people from going to school. Many have physical or emotional injuries…
2012-06-28 Debating the Best Way to Learn a Language
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What is the best way to learn a new language? A small study of foreign language learning in adults compared two methods.…
2012-06-07 The Problem With Plagiarism in South Korea
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. South Korea’s education system is highly respected. But there are concerns that academic dishonesty could harm its image in the world. That…
2012-06-14 Thinking Outside the Five-Paragraph Essay
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of students have been taught a formula that has nothing to do with chemistry. The formula is for writing a five-paragraph…
2012-05-31 New Rules on US Summer Jobs for Foreign Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one hundred thousand international students will spend this summer working and traveling in the United States. They are participating in…
2012-05-24 Using Student Writing to Teach Global Issues
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One World Education is a nonprofit group based in Washington. The group has a program in which teachers develop curriculum based on…
2012-05-17 A Living Science Exhibit Grows at a Museum
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Outdoors, in the open air, seems like a natural place to study natural science. It also makes sense in a place like…
2012-05-10 A Blog With Answers for Foreign Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. International students have a lot of questions about studying in the United States. But what do you suppose is the most common…
2012-05-03 Teens Get a History Lesson From History Makers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students at some high schools in Chicago, Illinois, recently had some famous visitors. Among them were Jimmy Carter, the former American president,…
2012-04-26 How a Small Change in Teaching May Create Better Readers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study suggests that…
2012-04-12 China, Mexico and Brazil Lead Gains in US Graduate School Applications
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Graduate schools in the United States are reporting a nine percent increase in applications from international students this year. The increase is…
2012-04-05 Getting a Better Picture of Student Success
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About ten percent of spending on primary and secondary education in the United States comes from the federal government. For ten years…
2012-03-29 Another Look at Massive Online Open Courses
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs. Tens of thousands, or even more, people can take these…
2012-03-08 High Dropout Rate a Problem for South Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Since the nineteen nineties, education has been required for all South Africans from age seven to fifteen. Last December, the government announced…