2007-11-15 Number of Foreign Students Rises in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the number of foreign students at colleges and…
2007-10-25 Weighing the Idea of a Year Off Before College
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Britain and other countries, young people sometimes take a “gap year,”…
2007-11-08 After 40 Years, Calculators in School Still Add Up to Debate
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Can you do the math: What is one hundred times four, divided…
2007-10-18 Colleges See Green in Sustainability Studies
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about a movement to build environmentally friendly school…
2007-11-01 The Many Sounds of College Radio
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. No two college radio stations sound alike. (SOUND) Some stations have a…
2007-10-11 ‘Green’ Schools Grow Around Us
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Alexandria, Virginia, the two thousand students at T.C. Williams High School…
2007-10-04 New Civics Questions for US Citizenship Test
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What does the Constitution do? What are the first ten amendments to…
2007-09-27 The Debate Over Merit Pay for Teachers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The idea seems reasonable. Recognize better workers with extra pay. But it’s…
2007-09-13 Appalachian State in Public Eye After Win Over Michigan
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An exciting start to the college football season: A team that many…
2007-09-20 Longer School Day = More Learning? Not Necessarily
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we talked about how some American schools have made changes in…
2007-08-30 Debating Year-Round Education
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we continue our discussion of school calendars as a new American…
2007-09-06 Virginia Tech Report Criticizes Mental Health System, School Actions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee gave its findings last week about the Virginia Tech shootings…
2007-08-23 Some (Adults) Call for Shorter Summer Break for US Kids
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The traditional American school year begins in late August or early September.…
2007-08-09 Few US Schools Now Named for People, Especially Presidents
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in New York, America’s biggest city, commonly have numbers for…
2007-08-02 China, Russia Win Top Results in Physics Olympiad in Iran
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than three hundred secondary school students competed in the thirty-eighth International…