The money will help them get a good education and health care insurance - things that Henrietta herself never had.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

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

Instead,she said people with mental disabilities needed to be treated as useful citizens and given special education and training.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

She says donors are pumping in a lot of resources and civil society groups are working on access to education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

"It was the genius of my teacher, her sympathy,her love which made my first years of education so beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

President-elect Obama has chosen the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan, to become his education secretary.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The Institute of International Education in New York says last year's top five were India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Dennis Van Roekel of the National Education Association said the plan "still relies on standardized tests to identify winners and losers."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Just last month, Saudi Arabia got its first woman cabinet member, Noura al-Fayez, the deputy minister for women's education.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Fast connections,it says, are important to business and job creation, and to other areas like education and health care.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Mister Legiardi-Laura, poet and writer Joe Ubiles and arts education expert Amy Sultan founded the program in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor quality education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Mount Holyoke College was the first college to offer women the same kind of education as was offered to men.

VOA: special.2010.06.27