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 ...

Fox News contributor Leo Terrell on Tuesday slammed a Towson University professor's claim that "standard English" is racist, saying that it's insulting to minorities to claim that correct grammar is ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the spread of English as a global language, so-called native speakers are often perceived to be in an unfair position of privilege and power. Simply put, if you have had to make no effort to ...

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 ...

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 — ...

I’m Mr Smith and today we’re going to practise how to use standard and non-standard English. These greetings all convey a similar message: Hello. However, some of these phrases include standard ...