In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you tips about how to improve your English skills. This week, Suzanne Meyer, the assistant director at the English Language Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you tips about how to improve your English skills. This week, Suzanne Meyer, the assistant director at the English Language Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Today we continue our series of expert suggestions for academic writing. Our guest is Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of the Practice in Writing Studies at Duke University in North C...
Many English learners can improve their pronunciation by listening carefully to native English speakers and trying to match the up-and-down movement of their sentences. That is the opinion of Marla Yoshida, an English as a Foreign Language teacher at...
Name, image, and likeness, or NIL, deals have enabled student-athletes to make money while going to college in the United States. But outside of some big-name athletes, many say that a degree remains the biggest, most important prize for going to sch...
On the first day of seventh grade in Aurora, Colorado, this past August, Alisson Ramirez worried about making friends and not understanding lessons taught in English. I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn't know how to answer, th...
The Leading Men Fellowship trains young Black and Latino men to become early literacy teachers in preschool classrooms across the United States. The program aims to deal with several problems at the same time. First, officials say there is a shortage...
For many years, children of families living in the United States illegally have had the right to attend public school based on a 1982 Supreme Court decision. The justices said it is unconstitutional to deny children an education based on their immigr...
Early education expert Dan Gartrell says the most important civics lesson that preschools can teach is social democracy.Gartrell wrote a book about teaching democracy to preschoolers. It is called Education for a Civil Society. The book is used by th...
Teachers in many English classes across America are having students read fewer full-length books. Recently, the Associated Press explored the issue in education. It reports that students instead are given only short parts of books. Educators said thi...
A new state law will soon require school districts in California to create new rules restricting student smartphone use. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the law recently. The legislation makes California the latest state to try to reduce stud...
Christina Westman hoped to become a music therapist when she came to St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. But that became impossible when the college announced a plan to cut its music department along with 42 other study programs. The move is par...
This autumn, students in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books. This marks a change from recent years. For the past 10 years, the Finnish government pushed laptops and other electronic devices in the classro...
US School Shooting Raises Questions about Classroom Phone Bans A mass shooting at an American high school has raised questions about policies restricting cellphone use in classrooms. The shooting took place September 4 at Apalachee High School in the...
Some top universities in the United States are reporting drops in the number of Black students in their incoming classes. At other colleges, including Princeton University and Yale University, the share of Black students changed little. This fall's c...
