2003-09-04 Home-Schooling
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new school year has begun in America. But some children do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home, usually…
2003-08-21 Teaching Fellows
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. New York City has the largest public school system in the United States. The city Department of Education operates one-thousand-two-hundred schools. Three…
2003-08-14 New Doctorate in Chicano Studies Offered in California
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The University of California will offer the nation’s first doctoral program in Chicano studies. Chicanos are people of Mexican ancestry who live…
2003-08-07 Nontraditional Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In a few weeks, more than one million students in the United States will start their first year at a college or…
2003-07-24 Vocational Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. American educational experts are debating the future of vocational training. This kind of training provides job skills for high school students who…
2003-07-31 ‘High School Early College’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In two-thousand-one, Bard College in New York State and the New York City Board of Education created an unusual school for the…
2003-07-10 Cyberschools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About twenty-one-thousand young people in seventeen American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their elementary and high…
2003-07-17 Alternative Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some young people in the United States attend alternative schools. These are schools that offer subject material or teaching methods that are…
2003-07-03 Foreign Students in the United States
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Foreign students are valuable to the United States. Many take part in important research. Most have to pay the full costs for…
2003-06-26 Community Service by American Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Millions of American students take part in service programs. They help people in their communities as part of their education. They work…
2003-06-19 Bronx Guild
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A non-profit organization that holds educational adventure programs is operating a public high school in New York. The New York City Outward…
2003-06-12 Commission Finds Poor Writing in U.S. Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A report by educators in the United States says students in American schools and colleges need to write better. The National Commission…
2003-06-05 Summer School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in American schools generally attend classes from August or September until the following May or June. After that, most educational systems…
2003-05-29 Graduations
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. May and June are the months when most graduation ceremonies take place in the United States. Young people traditionally take part in…
2003-05-22 Tutoring
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Traditionally, children in the United States have often gotten help with schoolwork from parents, grandparents and older sisters and brothers. This still…