Your March 12 column ["Proper Grammar Is Not a Prerequisite for AP English"], about two students who broke rules of usage while speaking in class, made me spit nails. What is the point of an "advanced ...

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.

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). When I recently explained ...