As he tells it,one day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Foreign students who need financial aid generally have to seek it from the school itself or their own government or employer.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Former president Bill Clinton said it was as if somehow school boards "could legislate differences in algebra or math or reading."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And whatever we want to do, it's outside the school or on our own or like private school or association outside."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It was organized by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

They realize it can be difficult to balance college classes and a job during the school year.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

It tells the story of a teenager named Bella Swan who falls in love with an unusual high school classmate named Edward Cullen.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Two years ago, it became the first school in the country to join the Confucius Classroom program.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It establishes the goals of the school and other details like how student performance will be measured.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

It helps reduce the number of high school drop-outs in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

And it aims to increase the number of children who walk or ride their bicycles to school.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Career and technical education is different from traditional school because it is much more "hands on."

VOA: special.2010.07.16