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…
2012-03-01 Using National Parks as Classrooms
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in twenty-sixteen. As it nears its second century,…
2012-03-15 These Pirates Help Children Learn to Write
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A group called Story Pirates goes into schools and performs shows for children. But these shows are based on stories written by…
2012-03-22 Getting a Free Education, in Huge Online Classes
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher’s bad dream. But a big idea…
2012-02-23 College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Imagine that you have lost your job.You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and…
2012-02-02 When a Textbook Is Online, Not on Paper
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and…
2012-02-09 Can Brain Scans of Young Children Predict Reading Problems?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Dyslexia is a problem that interferes with the ability to recognize words and connect sounds with letters when people read. People with…
2012-02-16 Linking Education and Employment in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than six hundred delegates have been meeting in Burkina Faso this week to discuss education in Africa. The aim is to…