At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and the poor quality of education being offered.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The Voice of America invites you to listen next week at the same time for another American story in Special English.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Your narrator was Kay Gallant. Listen again next week at the same time for this Special English program of AMERICAN STORIES.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

This week we play music by blues great Koko Taylor, who died last week at the age of eighty.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

At the end of a week, only two of the plotters were still free: David Herold and John Wilkes Booth.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The new findings were presented this week in San Antonio,Texas, at a meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Now,we talk to a researcher who presented a study this week at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Vancouver,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two...

VOA: special.2010.05.14

When he stopped teaching at Howard, he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

The Voice of America invites you to listen again next week at this same time to another AMERICAN STORY.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Join us again next week at this same time for another People in American program on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

This week America's top military officer expressed support for the proposal at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Listen again next week at this time for another American story told in Special English on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.04.11