2002-10-10 Foreign Student Series – 04. Online Education
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. This week, we continue our series of reports about how people from foreign countries can attend a college or university in the…
2002-09-26 Foreign Student Series – 02. First Steps
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. This week, we start a series of reports about how people from foreign countries can attend a college or university in the…
2002-09-19 Foreign Student Series – 01. Introduction
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. This week, we are starting a series of EDUCATION REPORTS about how people from foreign countries can attend college in the United…
2002-11-14 Foreign Student Series – 09. TOEFL
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our reports about how foreign students can attend an American college or university. This information also can be found on…
2002-11-07 Foreign Student Series – 08. Tests
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our reports about how foreign students can attend an American college or university. This information also can be found on…
2002-05-09 Privatization of Public Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last month, a state committee voted to give control of forty-two public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to seven private companies, organizations and…
2002-05-23 Teach for America
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teach for America is one of the nation’s most successful educational programs. This year, a record fourteen-thousand recent college graduates have asked…
2002-05-30 Single-Sex Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. There are many private schools in the United States that accept only boys or only girls. But there are only eleven single-sex…
2002-05-16 Home Schooling
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home. Most often, their parents…
2002-05-02 Teacher of the Year
This is the Special English Education Report. A social studies teacher from the state of California has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year. President Bush presented the…
2002-04-25 Learning to Read
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One of the most important issues in American education is how to teach children to read. Currently, American public and private schools…
2014-07-29 Digest – From Birds to Bears, Animals Face Danger Around the World
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. I’m Anna Matteo. And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we tell about hundreds of newly-identified plants and animals…
2014-07-15 Digest – Senegal Threatened with Loss of Lions
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. I’m Anna Matteo. And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we tell about problems facing lions in West Africa.…
2001-12-05 Process of Tumor Growth
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Scientists say they have made an important discovery about how a cancerous tumor develops the blood supply that it needs. The researchers…
2001-11-29 National Virtual Observatory
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. The National Science Foundation is providing ten-million dollars to develop a program that will permit astronomers to share scientific information. The program…