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…
2012-01-26 Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests. That…
2012-01-19 A Community Helps Burmese Refugees Learn English
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About eighteen thousand refugees from Burma have come to the United States each year since two thousand seven. Some have settled in…
2012-01-12 More School May Mean Higher IQ Scores
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A study in Norway has found that students who stayed in school longer than others their same age scored higher on intelligence…
2011-12-22 Education Group Gives 170 Million to 7 Countries
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A three-year effort in developing countries will seek to put twenty-five million children in school for the first time. Another goal of…
2011-12-29 Rural Medical School Competes With City Life
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem. One…
2011-12-15 Students Try to Cut Federal Budget in Online Game
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game lets people think of themselves doing one of the hardest…
2011-12-08 Program Helps Students Express Themselves with Creative Writing
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 826 is the name of a non-profit organization that works to help students become better writers by thinking creativity. 826 is also…
2011-11-24 A School System in Maine Gives iPads to Kindergartners
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Nine years ago, Maine became the first American state to provide laptop computers to all seventh and eighth graders in public schools.…