VOA慢速英语附字幕:A Living Science Exhibit Grows at a Museum2012-05-17- Outdoors, in the open air, seems like a natural place to study natural science. It also makes sense in a place like Southern California where people like to be outside a lot. Now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is working to bring the indoors to the outdoors for its visitors.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:A Blog With Answers for Foreign Students2012-05-11
- International students have a lot of questions about studying in the United States. But what do you suppose is the most common question?
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Teens Get a History Lesson From History Makers2012-05-03
- Students at some high schools in Chicago, Illinois, recently had some famous visitors. Among them were Jimmy Carter, the former American president, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union. Other speakers included former South African president F.W. de Klerk and Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:How a Small Change in Teaching May Create Better Readers2012-04-26
- Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Helping Women Continue Their Education After Prison2012-04-20
- Some women's prisons in the United States offer classes for college credit. But when the women gain freedom, they do not have much chance to continue their education.
- VOA慢速英语:China, Mexico and Brazil Lead Gains in US Graduate School Applications2012-04-12
- Graduate schools in the United States are reporting a nine percent increase in applications from international students this year. The increase is the same as two years ago. Last year's gain was eleven percent.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Getting a Better Picture of Student Success2012-04-05
- About ten percent of spending on primary and secondary education in the United States comes from the federal government. For ten years now, federal law has tied this spending to student performance. States have been required to show progress through yearly testing.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:名校公开课的另一面2012-03-29
- Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs. Tens of thousands, or even more, people can take these classes all at once. You can be anywhere in the world to take a MOOC. All you need is a computer and a network connection.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:名校公开课提供免费教育课程2012-03-22
- A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But a big idea in higher education these days is the massive open online course, or MOOC.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:改编孩童故事助其提高写作能力2012-03-16
- A group called Story Pirates goes into schools and performs shows for children. But these shows are based on stories written by the children themselves. The grown-ups are there to help them become better writers.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:南非高辍学率的教育问题2012-03-09
- Since the nineteen nineties, education has been required for all South Africans from age seven to fifteen. Last December, the government announced that seventy percent of students passed their final examination to finish high school. In two thousand eight the passage rate was about sixty-three percent. There have been increases each year since then.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:美国国家公园作为自然课堂2012-03-02
- The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in twenty-sixteen. As it nears its second century, the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:大学生得到小额信贷组织的贷款2012-02-23
- Imagine that you have lost your job.You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and a little money to advertise. But you cannot get a loan from a bank.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:非洲的教育和就业培训2012-02-17
- More than six hundred delegates have been meeting in Burkina Faso this week to discuss education in Africa. The aim is to find ways to support economic growth by improving education and job training programs.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:脑部扫描及早确诊儿童阅读障碍症2012-02-09
- Dyslexia is a problem that interferes with the ability to recognize words and connect sounds with letters when people read. People with this learning disorder may also have problems when they write. Dyslexia is not related to eyesight or intelligence. The problem involves areas of the brain that process language.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:When a Textbook Is Online, Not on Paper2012-02-02
- Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?2012-01-27
- Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests. That was the finding of a study of teenage males in Norway. Now, other research shows that physical activity may help students do better in their classes.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:A Community Helps Burmese Refugees Learn English2012-01-20
- About eighteen thousand refugees from Burma have come to the United States each year since two thousand seven. Some have settled in Howard County, Maryland, between Baltimore and Washington. A local school began teaching English to the children of the refugees.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:More School May Mean Higher IQ Scores2012-01-13
- In the middle of the nineteen fifties, the government began requiring students to attend school until the age of sixteen instead of fourteen. Communities had almost twenty years to make the change. So some students went to school for seven years while others went for at least nine years.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:2012目标-学好英语2012-01-05
- Did you make a New Year's resolution? Some of you shared your goals at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. And, no surprise, many of you said at least one of your goals for twenty-twelve is to speak English better.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:美国如何解决乡村医疗缺失问题2011-12-29
- Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem. One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:全球教育合作组织资助7国近1.7亿美元2011-12-23
- A three-year effort in developing countries will seek to put twenty-five million children in school for the first time. Another goal of the Global Partnership for Education is to train six hundred thousand teachers.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:网络游戏帮助美国政府削减预算2011-12-16
- Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game lets people think of themselves doing one of the hardest jobs in American politics: cutting the federal budget. The game is called Budget Hero.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:科学家走进小学科学课堂2011-12-01
- A program in the United States brings scientists and engineers into elementary schools to teach teachers more about how to teach science.
- VOA慢速英语附字幕:美国缅因州幼儿园使用ipad教学2011-11-25
- Nine years ago, Maine became the first American state to provide laptop computers to all seventh and eighth graders in public schools. The northeastern state has since expanded that program to about half of its high schools.