This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT.A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America's largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation -- more than seventy percent -- in areas surrounding the cities.The Editorial Proj...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Some American schools pay teachers more if their students improve on tests. Now, there is a growing movement to pay the students -- in some cases, even just for coming to class.Students at one school in New Mexico can earn up to three hundred dollars ...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we complete our series on learning disabilities.In the United States, federal law requires public schools to provide special education services to children with any disability. Specialists commonly provide these services while the children atten...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Now, we continue our series on learning disabilities. We look this week at a process used to identify problems and help children avoid failure in school. This process is called response to intervention, or R.T.I.Lynn Fuchs is a special education profe...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Executive function. What do you suppose that is? Mental health professionals, educators and others use this term when talking about ways that people exercise self-control. Executive function involves the skills we need to organize our lives.Experts at...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our series on learning disabilities with a problem that is not considered a learning disability by itself, but it can af fect learning. Our subject is attention deficit disorder, A.D.D., and the related form A.D.H.D., attention deficit hyp...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.So far in our series on learning disabilities we have talked about problems with reading, writing and movement. Today we talk about a problem that affects the brain's ability to process and understand the meaning of numbers. The name for this is dysca...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our series on learning disabilities with a look this week at a condition called dyspraxia.An estimated six percent of children, mainly boys, show signs of dyspraxiaDyspraxia is a movement disorder. The World Health Organization says about ...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.People who have unusual difficulty with reading, writing, listening or working with numbers might have a learning disability. We talked last week about a reading disorder, dyslexia. Today we discuss a writing disorder, dysgraphia.Writing is not an eas...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we begin a series of reports about learning disabilities.Experts say the problem is not with intelligence or the willingness to work hard. The problem, they say, is that some people's brains process information differently.By definition, people ...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we have the second in a series of reports about the group of disorders known as learning disabilities. Different ones affect reading, writing, listening, speaking or working with numbers.Dyslexia is difficulty with language skills, especially re...
Wealthy U.S. schools are being pushed to use more of their money to help students pay high tuition costs.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.An endowment is money from donations and investments. Colleges use endowment money for student aid and campus improvements, and for financial secu...
Action by Harvard turns up heat on other schools to use more of their endowment money to help their students.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A recent decision by Harvard University to expand financial aid is putting pressure on other schools to do the same.Graduation ceremonies at H...
Free course materials, including videos of lectures, are available online in many different subjects.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but growing number of colleges and universities.About one hundred sixty schools around the world now offe...
U.S. schools face growing pressure to make sure athletes graduate. Second of two parts.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we have the second of two reports about the education of college athletes in the United States. Millions of Americans follow college sports, mainly football a...
A rundown of the debate over the treatment of players in American schools. First of two parts.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.One of our listeners has a question about college athletes in the United States. Amni Garcia in Mexico would like to know how much they study.Well, we suppos...
Second of two reports about salaries for professors in the U.S.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Now, we continue our discussion from last week about the pay for professors in the United States. We looked at the averages. Today we narrow that to one example.Andrew McMichaelAndrew McMi...
We answer a question about the salaries of American professors.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we answer a question from a listener who wants to become a Spanish professor. Orlando Carvajal asks how much professors earn in the United States.Money from the sale of books written...
We asked for your opinions, and found more critics than supporters of using calculators in school.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A high school student in Pennsylvania works on a math questionRecently we asked how you feel about calculators in school. We heard from about thirty peop...
Who really did hold the first celebration in America? For some teachers, including those of American Indian children, that is beside the point.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.The fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Tradition says early English settl...
