The institute has trained more than fifteen thousand teachers and has provided health education for half a million women.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, gives a history of the celebration on its Web site.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

A third area is building data systems that not only measure student success, but also inform teachers how to improve.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The Language Teaching Program,for example, brings teachers of English as a foreign language to work at American colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

The National Council on Teacher Quality is a research group that works to increase the number of effective teachers.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

A few years ago, the National Education Association asked teachers what they would most like to receive in appreciation of their efforts.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

It was a good chance for our next generation of reporters here at VOA to ask other kids about their favorite teachers.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

States did require each town to provide a school for children, but teachers often were poorly prepared.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

We will tell a story about a man and woman who are teachers at the same school.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

They agreed with the teachers and with his father that Paul's was a bad case.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

It might be started by teachers, parents,community groups or, in some cases, a profit-making business.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

He believed if he could only enter this kind of a hotel, he would be able to leave school, his teachers,and his ordinary, gray life behind him.forever.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

A lot of these kids invite their teachers, of all people,to come in.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Mattye Whyte Woodbridge called for a national day to honor teachers.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

In September,Missus Obama gave GW students and teachers a test.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

So is it still being taught? "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Parents are a child's first teachers.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

By intensively training more teachers, he says,he hopes more students will get a chance to experience this new approach to learning math.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10