Second grade teacher Alison Kerr says the main goal is to engage children in the learning process.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

A former teaching assistant recently wrote to the New York Times about his experience with grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The United States and Russia signed an agreement to dispose of sixty-eight tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

The standards deal with language and mathematics in every grade from kindergarten through high school.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

A visitor still remembers the memory aid she learned long ago from her fifth-grade teacher.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"But it did cause major disruptions in the availability of food-grade corn.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

He also helps judge the yearly ninth grade science fair.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

"What I have seen is a lot of kids really take off because they do have the one-on-one attention and they are up to grade level, if not beyond,as a result of having been in the program."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Friday,Tehran delayed its response to a proposal made by the US, France and Russia to further enrich Tehran's existing stockpile of low-grade uranium.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

She says she had trouble with seventh grade algebra. "I think the teachers are good, but they can't go at a pace that's perfect for everyone."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Stevens graduated from the University of Richmond and now works as an eighth-grade teacher.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

The U.S.government says Tehran is trying to make weapons-grade nuclear material.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The IAEA draft deal calls for Iran to ship its stockpile of low-grade enriched uranium to Russia to be transformed into more highly enriched uranium for use in Tehran's medical research reactor.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

(Sound) Amid loud acclamations of approval, top hardline Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami warned the West that Tehran will produce its own high-grade uranium for a medical research reactor, if the UN International Atomic Energy Agency refuses to provide the fuel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28