ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Many students are returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW ...

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 ...

How does a teacher respond? Usually this way: “We don’t say, ‘Janae need a marker.’ We say, ‘Janae needs a marker.'” What the teacher needs is a new approach, according to two local educators ...

Many students are confused about grammar and sentence structure – so should universities teach it explicitly? Words image from www.shutterstock.com Imagine a student turning up at university and not ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure ...