If said governor(s) happens to be from New Jersey, we teachers will be lucky to have jobs, never mind investment in professional development...
In my undergrad Grammar & Style class, a great percentage of future "language arts" teachers really struggled through the semester, having come to the course with little background and little interest in learning. And with professors touting Elbow and Hillocks in composition classes, many teachers just see grammar instruction as the devil...
.... while districts imagine SAT scores will rise with a magic bullet.
Herb
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Hancock
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:16 PM
> To:
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> The National governor's Association's Common core Standards have been
> released and can be accessed at www.corestandards.org.
> Though they still don't go as far as they ought to in that
> direction,they seem a radical shift in favor of knowledge about
> language (not
> just language behavior) throughout the grade levels. This, for
> example, is from grade 7: "Explain the function of phrases and clauses
> in general and their function in specific sentences." This seems
> to me
> the sort of thing that can't happen solely "within the context of
> writing" or through mini-lessons.
> Check it out. If I am reading this correctly, they are
> calling for
> far more conscious attention to language from K-12.
>
> Craig
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