Like Schools Everywhere, The Nation’s Report Card Is Dumbing Down To Hide Racial Disparities
NAEP’s changes might cause better test results, but they fundamentally alter the meaning of reading comprehension, which would hurt students.
Using The Oxford Comma Is A Sign Of Grace And Clarity
Nathanael Blake argued here this week that the Oxford comma is a crutch for bad writing, and I must protest. All things considered, this punctuation mark may be more divisive than partisan politics.
Why Using The Oxford Comma Is A Sign Of Bad Writing
The Oxford comma is often superfluous and a crutch for bad writing, yet it has many partisans who want to force it on everyone.
BBC Lampoons Itself By Erecting Statue Honoring George Orwell
The BBC flatly rejected a previous attempt to erect a statue in 2011, on the grounds that Orwell was too left-wing. Irony is now officially dead.
Is Yale Really Elite If Its English Majors Never Read Shakespeare?
Yale’s English department decided it will no longer require English majors to study literary luminaries such as William Shakespeare and John Donne.
This Is How College Bureaucrats Pettily Tyrannize A Professor Who Crosses Them
Even at a small New England college of modest reputation, one voice of dissent is one too many, and the entire apparatus of the college administration moves to silence him.
Springfield College Tries To Oust Professor For Teaching ‘Men In Literature’
The world has more than 900 women’s studies programs, and thousands of classes about women in literature. English professor Dennis Gouws tries to teach one ‘men in literature’ class, and it’s one too many.
How I Learned To Stop Being a Grammar Nazi And Get On With Life
The closer you get to putting away your red pen for good, the more it seems there are more important things to do than leaving a trail of underlinings, deletions, and stets.
The Immigration Test Trump Should Have Proposed
Canada and Australia have developed very effective point-based scoring systems to evaluate skilled immigration applicants.
Go Ahead: Tell The Grammar Police To Back Down
Grammar purists are wrong to treat language as a closed system of rules and words. Language is a living thing.
Come See What Mass Immigration Looks Like In My School
American families shouldn’t be made to feel like they’re ignorant if they wonder about the quality of a neighborhood school that has gone global.
Are We Too Dumb For Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare’s words have never before been changed wholesale to accommodate the intellectual laziness of a generation of artists and audiences.
Making English Official Won’t Solve Our Immigration Problems
The frustration driving efforts for ‘language unity’ is not so much about English as it is about our leaders’ refusal to secure the borders and provide a more sane immigration policy.
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