Dave Chapman with children at the Divine Providence Children's Home in Kakamega, Kenya This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Current and former students from Berklee College of Music in Boston recently returned to the United States after...

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not everyone who teaches in a college or university is a professor. Many are instructors or lecturers. In fact, not even all professors are full professors. Many of them are assistant or associate pro...

The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Texas This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Girls and boys usually attend classes together in American public schools. But there are some single-sex programs, like a girls public school in Dalla...

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in Washington, DC, will return to classrooms this month to begin a new school year. But at least five percent of their teachers will not return with them. Last month, the District of Columbia...

Xavier Chavez, a teacher of English as a second language, teaching a summer history class at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Steven Weinberger is the director of linguistics in the English Depa...

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one hundred teenage musicians recently attended a summer camp in Los Angeles to learn about the music business. Some of the advice they received came from the youngest member of the Jonas Br...

Last year, twenty-nine percent of first-year college students surveyed said they often felt overwhelmed by all they had to do in their last year of high school. This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For years the University of California,...

Professor Sookyoung Lee teaches a class on critical thinking and research to inmates at San Quentin prison in California. This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week we told you about a prison training program in the American Northwes...

Inmates Lisa Bode, left, and Cynthia Thompson participate in the LIFE program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon. This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Getting a job can be especially difficult for someone with a prison r...

Members of the lacrosse team practice at Ballou High School in Washington This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Ballou High School in Washington might not seem the mostly likely school to have a lacrosse team. (SOUND) But lacrosse has gro...