Grammar link with weaker schools
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Grammar schools should twin with failing comprehensives to improve standards, a government adviser says.
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By Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 14--Here's a challenge to everyone who ever wrote a letter to this  page criticizing the Albany public schools for poor performance: Now you have  a chance to do something about it.
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Schools in England have been sent advice on how to teach children good spoken English.
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Â· Maths and English hit by decline in trainees  Â· Shortfall will hit schools in summer of 2009
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Its strengths are obvious, but its weaknesses are harder to spot.
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By MARGARET BARBER  Dear Editor, I was struck by the irony of the juxtaposition of two articles in of The Birmingham Post (Dec 14).   The first told of concerns that teenagers were finding it difficult to get jobs because they were not able to express themselves adequately.
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Disadvantaged children lagging a full year behind before they start school.
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One in 10 secondary schools in England were judged "inadequate" by school inspectors, a report is to say.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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There are big variations in how many children from different neighbourhoods go to university.
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Academies should become this generation's grammar schools, offering disadvantaged bright children a "ladder" out of poverty, according to a schools minister.
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A Muslim girls' comprehensive heads the table of pupil progress in England, with grammars showing strongly.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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In a new post on his blog, Kore Nordmann takes a look at a feature that's been around a long time (first introduced in a message board application) - BBCodes.   The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing" ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any sense in using them at all.   He looks at some of the myths surrounding them and their use (more secure, easier to use, safer than HTML) and gives some reasons for making teh choice of HTML over them.