In Rob Jenkins’s essay, “We Must Help Our Students Master Standard English” (The Chronicle, In Rob Jenkins’s essay, “We Must Help Our Students Master Standard English” (The Chronicle, April 10), he ...

The growing numbers of second-generation Latino students attending U.S. schools pose new challenges for teachers, according to a Fox News Latino report. These students are often fluent in English but ...

Standard English is the form of English that is taught around the world and understood by all speakers of the language. Non-standard English is the informal version of the language, which can change ...

Many GCSE English students did not realise that phrases such as "get off of" and "she was stood" were grammatically incorrect. It comes amid fears that the use of social networking websites and mobile ...

After students at a California high school were recently told to “translate” Black English phrases into standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: “The last thing they need — ...

England has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools and, since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services ...

The issue of Singlish and its place in Singapore crops up with regularity now and then. Its evergreen appeal as an issue in mainstream and social media suggests it is both an intractable, and emotive, ...

Expecting black students to write standard English that their teachers understand is racist, according to a University of Michigan professor. April Baker-Bell believes that “traditional approaches to ...