Barbara Morgan and other astronauts take part in video link from International Space Station.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.SOUND: "Good morning, Discovery Center -- good afternoon. We're happy to be here with you. This is Al Drew, Clay Anderson, Dave Williams and I'm Barb Morgan. ...
Study warns of loss for civic education in trend toward choosing names of things like animals or trees.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Public schools in New York, America's biggest city, commonly have numbers for names. But this is unusual. In the United States, the process of namin...
The growing popularity of technology camps and other substitutes for a traditional experience in the woods.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.(MUSIC)Students learn to paint at the Museum of East Texas Summer Art CampMillions of children in the United States go to summer camp. Some go t...
Supporters believe dressing the same creates a better learning environment and safer schools. But studies find mixed results. Second of two reports.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.In nineteen ninety-nine, twelve percent of public elementary schools in the United States required stud...
A look at clothing policies in American schools.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Students in uniform at a Texas middle schoolA listener in Fukuoka, Japan, Shinji Abe, would like to know about school uniform policies in the United States.American schoolchildren often wear uniforms if ...
A shortage of students and money leads to a disputed plan to close the Ohio school next July and reopen in 2012.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Antioch CollegeAntioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a private liberal-arts school with ahistory of social activism. It was the first...
A look at graduation time in America. All 43 reports in our series on US higher education can be found at voaspecialenglish.com.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Summer means the end of another school year in America. May and June are graduation season.A group of Brown University unde...
We answer a question from a student in China in Part 42 of our series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A student at Xinjiang Normal University in China has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Akbar Mamat wants to go overseas after graduation and would like some information abo...
The University of Pennsylvania was recognized a year before Harvard. Yet Harvard came first. We explain in Part 41 of our Foreign Student Series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with questions from three listeners.Thu Ya Naing from Bur...
High school students from 73 countries, including the US, competed in Isfahan.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.More than three hundred secondary school students competed in the thirty-eighth International Physics Olympiad last month in Iran. They came from seventy-three countries, in...
We look at one of the largest seminaries in North America in Part 40 of our Foreign Student Series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A Chinese woman studying business law in Japan has a question about studying a different kind of law. Wang Yuxian says she is a Christian and would like...
We answer a question from a doctor in Vietnam in Part 39 of our Foreign Student Series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with a question from a doctor at a hospital in Vietnam. Tran Kinh Thanh in Ho Chi Minh City asks how a foreign doct...
A student in Vietnam asks about American J-schools in Part 38 of our Foreign Student Series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A student at Vietnam National University has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Phuong Lan wants to earn a master's degree in the United States and wou...
A look at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York. Part 36 of our series.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in ...
Part 36 of our Foreign Student Series: a listener in Nigeria asks if visually impaired foreign students can get a full scholarship as an undergraduate.This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A listener in Nigeria has a question about financial aid for blind and visually impaired college stu...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Financial aid is the subject this week in our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. High school students who may be interested in attending Princeton University in New Jersey go on a tour with their familiesStudents who want...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Students at the University of IowaMore than five hundred sixty thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year. It was the seventh straight year with more than half a million international students in t...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know more about the Fulbright Program. The Fulbright Pr...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.A T.A. usually works about twenty hours each week. In some cases, the professors they...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.International Student Handbook 2007 from the College BoardWe continue our Foreign Student Series this week with a report on the International Student Handbook. This publication can be a useful guide if you are interested in attending a college or univ...
