2011-06-23 Girls Lacrosse Team Raises Hopes at School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Ballou High School in Washington might not seem the mostly likely school to have a lacrosse team. (SOUND) But lacrosse has grown…
2011-06-16 No National Standards – A Strength or Weakness of US Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What American students are expected to learn has long been different from state to state. We talked last time about the tradition…
2011-06-09 Should All Students in US Learn the Same Things?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than forty of the fifty American states have approved what are known as the common core state standards. These are lists…
2011-06-02 Lecture or Interactive Teaching? Old Issue, New Study
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Professors have lectured for centuries. But how effective is lecturing to students compared to working with them? A new study compared two…
2011-05-26 Dealing With Sexual Violence on Campus
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we told you about a call for American educators to do more to protect students from sexual violence on campus.…
2011-05-19 US Schools Under Pressure to Deal With Sexual Violence
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Federal officials in the United States are telling schools that they need to do a better job of preventing sexual violence and…
2011-03-24 Meet Some Top Students in the Intel Science Talent Search
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Intel Science Talent Search is the top science competition for high school students in the United States. The forty finalists were…
2011-05-12 A School Where Children Learn to Eat Better
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About one-fifth of Americans age six to nineteen are considered overweight. To reduce those numbers, some schools are teaching children to make…
2011-05-05 Thousands of US Teachers Lose Jobs as States Cut Budgets
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. America’s recession ended in June of two thousand nine but recovery has been slow. Many states face budget problems and have cut…
2011-04-28 A Social Network Aims to Speed Up Progress in Science
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A few years ago, a university researcher was having problems with an experiment that involved medical imaging. His adviser and his friends…
2011-04-21 British Kids + Online Tutors in India = Divided Opinions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. India was once a colony in the British Empire. But now Indian tutors are helping to teach math to some British children…
2011-04-14 A Push to Get More Indonesians to Study in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Obama administration wants to double the number of Indonesians studying in the United States. More than fifty American universities recently attended…
2011-04-07 A School Newspaper Links Sioux Indian Teens to Their Community
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the American state of South Dakota is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. It’s also where…
2011-03-31 Children at US School Show Their Support for Victims in Japan
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Cranes are large birds with long legs and necks. In Japan and other East Asian cultures, they represent luck and long life.…
2011-03-17 Debating the Display of Ten Commandments in Public Schools and Buildings
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Giles County, Virginia, the school board has removed displays of the Ten Commandments from its schools. The county thought that posting…