2004-06-03 Graduation Speakers
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. May and June are the months when most American high schools and colleges hold their graduation ceremonies. Elementary and…
2004-05-27 Electronic Games in Education
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. For some educators, there is nothing wrong with fun and games. A group called the Education Arcade recently held…
2004-05-20 Student Winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. High school students from more than forty countries gathered last week in the American Northwest. They took part in…
2004-05-13 Intel Excellence in Science Teaching Awards
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Five high school teachers are the winners of an international award from the computer technology company Intel in the…
2004-04-08 Single-sex Schools
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many private schools in the United States teach only boys or only girls. But fewer than one-hundred public schools…
2004-04-22 Foreign Language Learning in the United States
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. It seems more and more Americans want schools to teach foreign languages to children younger than five years old.…
2004-04-01 Intel Science Talent Search Winners
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. A seventeen-year-old boy from the northeastern state of Massachusetts has won the top prize in the Intel Science Talent…
2004-03-25 Learning Disabilities, Part 08 -Conclusion
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we complete an eight-part series about learning disabilities. Such disorders interfere with skills like reading, writing or thinking.…
2004-03-18 Learning Disabilities, Part 07 – Attention Deficit Disorder
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series about learning disabilities. So far, we have discussed some of the brain disorders that make…
2004-03-11 Learning Disabilities, Part 06 – Special Education
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue with part six in our series about learning disabilities. So far, we have discussed problems with skills…
2004-03-04 Learning Disabilities, Part 05 -Dyscalculia
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series about learning disabilities. So far, we have talked about problems with skills like reading, writing…
2004-02-26 Learning Disabilities, Part 04 -Dyspraxia
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. People who have unusual difficulty with reading, writing or other skills may have a learning disability. Today we continue…
2004-02-19 Learning Disabilities, Part 03 -Dysgraphia
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. People who have unusual difficulty with skills like reading, writing, listening or working with numbers may have a learning…
2004-02-12 Learning Disabilities, Part 02 – Dyslexia
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we began a discussion of learning disabilities. These are disorders that cause unusual difficulty for a person…
2004-01-29 Ideas for Teaching Young Children
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Experts say students are never too young to think creatively about science. Educator Karen Meador says early education can…