The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

A new report suggests the national curriculum’s focus on teaching grammar may not help pupils to write more effectively. A study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, and co-authored by researchers from ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

Do you know what a suffix is, or how to distinguish adjectives from adverbs? If you have a six or seven-year-old, the chances are they do. Or at least, the UK government now says they should – by the ...

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The 3rd-graders at P.S. 277 in Brooklyn twisted upward in their seats, hands fluttering on outstretched arms like flags atop a pole. As teacher Janet Kennedy recognized them, they marched in turn to ...

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Raise your hand if you liked sentence diagramming in school. Is your hand raised? If so: Really? Ew. For normal-ish people, diagramming, if not always a fun exercise, is one of many tools to help ...

Plans for new primary school grammar tests in England will hold a "gun to the head" of teachers, experts say. The National Association for the Teaching of English says a revised focus on spelling, ...

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