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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2011-03-03 In Class With Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, Asia
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps. President John…