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Study: Latino Students Most Segregated in California LOS ANGELES Even though legal school segregation ended in the United States 60 years ago, one study finds segregation still occurs in the U.S. based on income and race. The University of California
From NPR news, this is all things considered. I'm Janifer Ladon. 42 governors gathered in Washington this weekend for a conference on high school education. There is widespread concern that a high school diploma doesn't mean much these days. And too
Friday June 27, Bill Gates will step down from his full-time job at Microsoft, the company he co-founded with his childhood friend, Paul Allen. Gates said he will focus his efforts on improving the health and living conditions of the world's needies
Inventor, icon, genius. Steve Jobs gave Silicon Valley its identity. Sparked an i craze and maybe unbelievable portable. 1976 Jobs, a college dropout, teams up with a friend to build the worlds first Apple computer in his California garage. 1984 The
By Paige Kollock Washington 30 August 2007 For many people around the world, religion and music are inextricably tied. The Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley became famous for singing about faith, God and the Bible. He also sang songs about freedom an
By Efam Dovi Accra 06 July 2006 In Ghana an estimated 12,000 of the country's 20 million people are infected with tuberculosis annually, and for many of them access to treatment has not always been easy. So the Global Fund is sponsoring a new progra
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Less than sixty percent of students now entering four-year American colleges are likely to graduate. The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and min
Technology Report - Steve Jobs Remembered 科技报道 - 缅怀一代巨头乔布斯 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last
Last month, Washington, D.C., opened a new kind of trade school of which it is immensely proud. This is not one of the old-fashioned vocational schools that taught literal nuts-and-bolts repair work or hands-on career training in fields like auto re
By Stephanie Ho Washington 26 March 2007 An Australian detainee held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to be the first so-called enemy combatant tried under a new military commission procedure that was approved by the U.S. Congress last
With nearly 1.2 million children, the New York City public school system is the largest in the nation. Until recently, the Big Apple had one of the worst per capita high school dropout rates in the country, especially in the city's low-income neighb
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Almost two years ago, actor/writer/musician Donald Glover turned the TV world upside down with his ambitious dramedy Atlanta. The show's second season debuts tonight on FX, and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says it takes Glover's ambi
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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Millions of Americans suffer from depression and anxiety. Research shows regular exercise can ease conditions like panic attacks, mood swings, sleep disorders. And a recent study shows that the type of exercise really m
Graduates of Yale University,I apologise if you have endured this type of prologue before,but I want you to do something for me.Please,take a good look around you.Look at the classmate on your left.Look at the classmate on your right. Now,consider t
When Steve Jobs died Wednesday, the business world lost a marketing genius - one of the world's most creative and successful innovators. Jobs, who is credited with rescuing the company he founded and turning it into one of the world's most valuable c
By Nico Colombant Monrovia 22 February 2008 Teachers and students in Liberia say they want more than textbooks and desks to improve their war-ravaged education system, following new aid pledges by President Bush at the end of his Africa tour this wee
Education used to be a top priority for Zimbabwe's government. But as Tendai Maphosa reports from Harare, the country's economic and political crisis is taking a heavy toll on the education system. Under normal circumstances, junior school children
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a device on the market that is supposed to help people who are trying to quit opioids. The FDA has allowed the device based on a study, but that study may have serious flaws. Jake Harper from our member station WFYI in In