10 March 2010 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last month, students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harb...

By June Simms 2010-2-28 Photo: AP An electronic tag using radio frequency identification technology This is the VOA Special English Development Report. We talked last week about counterfeit medicines and how the problem is especially bad in Africa, A...

24 February 2010 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Obama administration says American schools should produce students who are college and career ready. What is the best way to do that? One group that has some ideas is the National...

By Nancy Steinbach 2010-2-17 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week on our program, we answer a question from Japan. A listener named Maki would like to know if the test known as the TOEIC is popular in the United States. TOEIC i...

By Lawan Davis 2010-1-27 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Web browsers first appeared on computers in the early nineteen nineties. Since then, the Internet has greatly changed the way people communicate. But some teachers think the c...

By Nancy Steinbach 2010-1-20 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Charter schools operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In the United States the rules for charter schools differ f...

By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-30 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Early this year, Special English began receiving comments about all the stories on our Web site. The Education Reports have received many comments. We began the year in t...

By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-23 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas. The Constitution separates religion from govern...

By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A question from the West Bank: Zuheir Khlaif wants to know how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and le...

By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-9 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight. She came from a family of music historians. She helped h...