2008-09-25 Foreign Student Series – 03. College, University or Institute?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans use the term “college students” to mean students either in colleges…
2008-09-11 Foreign Student Series – 01. An Introduction
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener in Poland recently sent us an e-mail. Slawek Loboda writes:…
2008-08-28 Minding the Summer Learning Gap
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the…
2008-09-04 School, and Family, Budgets Under Pressure
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Fifty million public school children in America are starting a new school…
2008-08-21 Interest Grows in International High Schools in US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some American high schools are for students with special interests, like science…
2008-08-14 Young Voices in the Fight Against AIDS
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One thousand young people from around the world attended the International AIDS…
2008-08-07 Former Teach for America Member Says The Program Changed Her Life
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teach for America is a non-profit program that places new teachers in…
2008-07-31 NYU Pushes Foreign Study
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The number of American students who study in other countries has been…
2008-07-17 High Fuel Prices Mean a Hard Road for School Buses
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. High fuel prices are affecting all areas of life, including education. The…
2008-07-24 Schools Look to Save Money With Four-Day Week
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. As we said last week, American schools are looking for ways to…
2008-07-10 ‘Summer Work/Travel’ Brings Many Students to US
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week, we answer a question from a student in Odessa, Ukraine.…
2008-07-03 Debating Eighth-Grade Graduations
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the United States, middle school is the period between elementary school…
2008-06-26 Online Learning Grows, but Research Finds Mixed Results
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Forty-two of the fifty American states offered some kind of public online…
2008-06-05 Fighting Music Piracy on College Campuses
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. When the parents of today’s young people were in school, sharing music…
2008-06-19 Book Predicts Jump in High School Courses Online
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Computers have been used in teaching for more than twenty years. But…