2010-06-10 How the Great Coach John Wooden Defined Success
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. John Wooden died last Friday at the age of ninety-nine. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports. He was…
2010-06-17 English and Spanish Speakers Learn Together, and From Each Other
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the last ten years, hundreds of American schools have begun to offer a new way to teach foreign languages. This method…
2010-07-01 Teaching the Dangers of Distracted Driving, Before It’s Too Late
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from distracted driving — not paying attention to…
2010-07-22 National Standards for US Schools Gain Support
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans have never had national education standards. Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.…
2010-07-15 In Treating Athletes, Is Trainer’s Sex an Issue? Sometimes It Is
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One job of an athletic trainer is to treat injured athletes. But does it make a difference if the trainer is male…
2010-07-08 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of high school students have read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The novel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice…
2010-08-05 Muslim College Opens in US With Hopes and Suspicions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Zaytuna College is a new four-year college in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna is seeking to become the first accredited Muslim college in the…
2010-07-29 For-Profit Colleges in US May Face Tests on Federal Student Aid
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama wants the United States to have the world’s highest rate of college graduates. But his administration also wants stronger rules…
2010-08-12 Obama Signs Spending Bill to Protect Teachers’ Jobs
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare. The measure includes ten billion…
2010-09-09 How Failure Can Lead to Long-Lasting Knowledge
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. No one likes to make mistakes. But a new study says organizations learn more from their failures than their successes, and keep…
2010-09-02 Coming to Terms With Academic Titles at US Colleges
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not everyone who teaches in a college or university is a professor. Many are instructors or lecturers. In fact, not even all…
2010-09-16 Women Edge Past Men in Doctorates in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the United States, about six out of ten students in graduate schools are women. The same is true of today’s young…
2010-09-30 For Some, Free Citizenship Classes; For Others, a Dream Delayed Again
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans talk a lot about illegal immigration but not as much about legal immigration. Legal immigrants who want to become citizens must…
2010-09-23 Peace Corps Volunteers Find a Wired World
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Next year, the Peace Corps will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Peace Corps volunteers are Americans who teach and work on projects in…
2010-10-07 Early Classes = Sleepy Teens Duh
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Surveys of American teenagers find that about half of them do not get enough sleep on school nights. They get an average…