2009-12-17 Educational Technology – Not Just Computers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A question from the West Bank: Zuheir Khlaif wants to know how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple…
2009-12-10 Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, Brought Folk Music to a Wider Public
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight. She came…
2009-11-19 US Colleges Set Enrollment Record
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. College enrollment has reached an all-time high in the United States. About forty percent of all eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds — or almost…
2009-12-03 Some Advice on Choosing a College
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we told you that the number of foreign students in the United States had reached an all-time high. More than…
2009-11-12 Bringing Young People Together by Video
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An American nonprofit organization helps young people around the world to understand important issues, and each other. The Global Nomads Group organizes…
2009-09-24 Getting a Fellowship, From the Ford Foundation
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Ford Foundation in the United States is a charitable organization that calls itself “a partner for social change.” It has a…
2009-09-17 Stanley Kaplan – Remembering a Test Prep Pioneer
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Here is a question for a college admissions test. Who was Stanley Kaplan? Did he A) start a test preparation company, B)…
2009-09-10 Facing America’s High Dropout Rates
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Less than sixty percent of students now entering four-year American colleges are likely to graduate. The completion rate is lower than for…
2009-09-03 Going Digital: The Future of College Textbooks?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year. The National Association of College Stores…
2009-07-16 Foreign Student Series – 43. Reviewing the Steps
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For ten months, we have talking about coming to study in the United States. This week, we complete that series and repeat…
2009-07-09 Foreign Student Series – 42. From ‘In Loco Parentis’ to ‘Partnership’
This is the VOA Special English Education Report “In loco parentis” is a Latin term meaning “in the place of a parent.” It describes when someone else accepts responsibility to…
2009-06-18 Foreign Student Series – 39. A Free Year at a Community College
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Two-year colleges in the United States are also known as community colleges. Students earn an associate degree. Or they can train for…
2009-06-25 Foreign Student Series – 40. The Job Market
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In America, May and June are the traditional months for graduations. A listener in China, Jack Hoo from Jiangsu province, wants to…
2009-07-02 Foreign Student Series – 41. Foreign Graduates and Jobs
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answered a question last week about how American college students find jobs after they graduate. Now, we discuss foreign graduates. The…
2009-06-11 Foreign Student Series – 38. Science Students Are Promised No More Visa Delays
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. American officials say they are working to reduce visa delays that have affected foreign science students, researchers and others. The delays involve…