2002-05-23 Teach for America
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teach for America is one of the nation’s most successful educational programs. This year, a record fourteen-thousand recent college graduates have asked…
2002-05-30 Single-Sex Schools
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. There are many private schools in the United States that accept only boys or only girls. But there are only eleven single-sex…
2002-05-16 Home Schooling
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home. Most often, their parents…
2002-05-02 Teacher of the Year
This is the Special English Education Report. A social studies teacher from the state of California has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year. President Bush presented the…
2002-04-25 Learning to Read
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One of the most important issues in American education is how to teach children to read. Currently, American public and private schools…
2014-07-29 Digest – From Birds to Bears, Animals Face Danger Around the World
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. I’m Anna Matteo. And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we tell about hundreds of newly-identified plants and animals…
2014-07-15 Digest – Senegal Threatened with Loss of Lions
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. I’m Anna Matteo. And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we tell about problems facing lions in West Africa.…
2001-12-05 Process of Tumor Growth
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Scientists say they have made an important discovery about how a cancerous tumor develops the blood supply that it needs. The researchers…
2001-11-29 National Virtual Observatory
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. The National Science Foundation is providing ten-million dollars to develop a program that will permit astronomers to share scientific information. The program…
2001-11-28 Children and Sleep
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. For many years, officials of the National Institutes of Health have told Americans that they need to get enough sleep to stay…
2001-11-22 Vitamins for Vision Loss
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. A new study shows that large amounts of vitamins and minerals can slow the loss of sight linked to aging. The condition…
2001-11-21 Largest Cockroach Fossil Ever Found
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. American scientists have reported finding the largest complete remains of a cockroach ever discovered. The scientists say the insect was about the…
2001-11-15 New Genetic Test for Anthrax
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Last week, medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota announced that they have developed a new test that can quickly…
2001-11-14 Tiny Transistor
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Scientists report they have created the smallest device to carry electrical current ever made. The device is called a transistor. It is…
2001-11-08 Rush Limbaugh’s Hearing Loss
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Rush Limbaugh has the most popular radio talk show in the United States. His talk show is broadcast on six-hundred radio stations.…