2012-04-12 China, Mexico and Brazil Lead Gains in US Graduate School Applications
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Graduate schools in the United States are reporting a nine percent increase…
2012-04-05 Getting a Better Picture of Student Success
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About ten percent of spending on primary and secondary education in the…
2012-03-29 Another Look at Massive Online Open Courses
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs.…
2012-03-08 High Dropout Rate a Problem for South Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Since the nineteen nineties, education has been required for all South Africans…
2012-03-01 Using National Parks as Classrooms
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one…
2012-03-15 These Pirates Help Children Learn to Write
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A group called Story Pirates goes into schools and performs shows for…
2012-03-22 Getting a Free Education, in Huge Online Classes
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might…
2012-02-23 College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Imagine that you have lost your job.You could start a sewing business…
2012-02-02 When a Textbook Is Online, Not on Paper
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now…
2012-02-09 Can Brain Scans of Young Children Predict Reading Problems?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Dyslexia is a problem that interferes with the ability to recognize words…
2012-02-16 Linking Education and Employment in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than six hundred delegates have been meeting in Burkina Faso this…
2012-01-26 Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school…
2012-01-19 A Community Helps Burmese Refugees Learn English
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. About eighteen thousand refugees from Burma have come to the United States…
2012-01-12 More School May Mean Higher IQ Scores
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A study in Norway has found that students who stayed in school…
2011-12-22 Education Group Gives 170 Million to 7 Countries
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A three-year effort in developing countries will seek to put twenty-five million…