Recently, there have been increased efforts to make sure children in Africa get a good, strong education. But a new report says governments are losing about $129 billion dollars every year on poor quality education. As a result, about one in four students in poor countries cannot read a complete sentence. That represents about 175 million young […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Community colleges in the United States have a lot to offer. Educators say these two-year colleges may be a good choice for international students who have finished secondary school and want to study in the US. Today we tell about a program for such students. It is called […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. South Africa has 11 official languages. If you want to say “hello,” it’s “sawubona” in Zulu, and “hallo” in Afrikaans. Now, South African schoolchildren may start using “ni hao” to say “hello.” The country’s education ministry hopes to add Mandarin language classes in some schools. Mandarin is […]
For VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Thousands of young people in Senegal attend and live at religious schools called daaras. These schools accept only boys. The students are called talibe’ and they study the Koran. Some daaras force students to ask strangers on the street for money and food. The government had promised […]
The reported rape of a six-year-old student at a well-know school in Jakarta has received widespread media attention in Indonesia. The costly Jakarta International School, or JSI, serves many children of diplomats and wealthy foreign families. Indonesian police have arrested several suspects in connection with the incident reported in early April. Similar reports of sexual abuse at […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Growing up can be hard in poor neighborhoods where crime is common. That is the situation Marco Antonio Aguilar faced when he started at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California. The boy hated school. He says he had the wrong friends, often missed classes and even got into […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Sixty years ago, the highest court in the United States changed American education. On May 17th, 1954, all nine judges of the Supreme Court ruled against racial separation in public schools. The court said such segregation in schools violates the United StatesConstitution. At that time, many school systems had separate schools […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Should girls go to school only with other girls? Is it better for boys to attend all-boys’ schools? Educators at a school for girls in Washington, D. C. believe children do better in classes of the same sex. But other experts say there is no real evidence to support […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Many schools across the U.S. hold graduation ceremonies at this time of year. In some schools, even five- and six-year-olds observe their graduation from kindergarten. So can older people…much older. Seventy-year-old Jerry Reid just graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He earned a bachelor’s degree. Mr. […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. Economic concerns have been at the heart of the recent protests in Brazil. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff answered growing public unrest over government spending and economic concerns. On June 24, she proposed a popular vote, or plebiscite, on a constitutional process to make reforms needed by the country. President Rousseff […]