Home-Schooling

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 4, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Education Report. A new school year has begun in America. But some children do not go to school. Inste

School Population Growth

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 11, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. About one-in-four people age three and older in the United States is a student. The g

'America's Legislators Back to School Week'

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 18, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. In the United States, the third week of September is the 1)observance of what is call

Ten Commandments Dispute

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 29, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Many people have watched a dispute over the placement of a stone marker in the America

Middle School Recommendations

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 27, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than nine-million children in the United States attend public middle schools. Mid

Head Start Testing

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 13, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Four-year-old children in Head Start programs throughout the United States are taking

College Costs in U.S.

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 6, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the cost of studies at public colleges in the United States increased

Virtual Learning

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 30, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many people remember the day in school when they had to 1)cut up a dead frog. Students

Parent-Teacher Associations

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 23, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Six-million people in the United States belong to 1)parent-teacher associations, or PTA

Homework

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 16, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Students often say their teachers give them too much homework. Now, reports by two rese

Improving High School Reading and Writing

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 9, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Education Report. An American expert has suggestions for helping high school students read and write bette

'MegaSkills' for Children

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 2, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Education Report. MegaSkills is a program used in schools across the United States. This program trains a

Reading Recovery

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 25, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million school children in the United States have gone through a progra

Schoolyard Habitats

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 20, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Educational gardens called

Briton Charged in U.S. with Missile Sale

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 16, 2003 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. A London man faces charges that he tried to bring a missile into the United States. American of

Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 5, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. 1)Palestinian 2)militants are demanding that 3)Israel free thousands of Palestinians or r

Bush Visits Africa

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 12, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. President Bush was in Africa this week to discuss the AIDS crisis, trade, African confli

Bush and Blair Defend War in Iraq

by Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 19, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair this week defended their decision t

Sergio Vieira de Mello

By Shelley Gollust Broadcast: August 23, 2003 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. On Tuesday, a 1)suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into the United Nations

Congressional Report on Sept. 11 Attacks Investigation

by Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 26, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. This week, a joint congressional committee released its final report about the terrorist