Science Daily reports that UK researchers at Northumbria University have found that many people who speak English don’t understand its basic grammar. Apparently this has nothing to do with intelligence: [Dr Ewa Dabrowska] also stressed that the findings have nothing to do with intelligence. Participants with low levels of educational attainment were given instruction following [...]
The NY teachers’ union (UFT) wishes people– you know, the “blame the teacher crowd and the Wall Street Hedge Funds behind them”– to “quit playing politics” with the school children of New York. EdWise has the TV ad that the UFT began running last week in an attempt to prevent the possible $500 million education [...]
As a part-time grammar queen, I couldn’t resist this. Kind of makes me wish I were teaching fifth grade again!