"We know that we want kids to be learning hands-on and make discoveries in their own backyard.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

The Amizade Global Service-Learning and Volunteer Programs placed three hundred volunteers in nine countries last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

The center's distance learning program uses puppets to teach children in classrooms in forty-four American states.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Emma Northey, head of primary learning at the school, says fifty-one nationalities were represented.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

And she says children from Spanish-speaking families benefit from learning in their own language.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Today,only one person speaks Siletz Dee-ni, on the reservation but others are learning.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

In nineteen ninety-five she started the Afghan Institute of Learning.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

Myra Olmeda is the teacher. "So what happens is when these both groups together, they're learning,you know, one from the other -- which is the greatest thing that is happening."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

They include computer engineers, statisticians and machine-learning experts.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Songbirds are one of the few groups of animals that - like humans - are capable of vocal learning.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

(SPEAKING) He is Catholic, but he says he has started learning a few Islamic expressions, such as the greeting "As-Salamu Alaykum."

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

But he cannot afford to pay for the three-year distance-learning qualification program offered by the government.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Preschoolers who attend these so-called 'forest kindergartens' spend all their time learning outside from nature.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25