OAKLAND — They were all a lot smaller when they saw each other last. But then, height happens when you’re half a century out of grammar school. “My, how you’ve grown,” a joking Tom Souza told fellow ...

Regarding the editorial “Rethink college remedial classes”: As an English instructor who has taught both remedial and introductory writing at the University of Washington, I can testify from my ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

AI models are able to derive the rules of human language without being provided with explicit information about grammar and word classes. This is the ...

Justine Greening wants new grammar schools to prioritise the bright children of families earning £33,000 with two children or £17,000 with one. Does that mean a two-tier selection process, with quotas ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Hong Kong parent writes: it really frustrates me that my Year Six son cannot use apostrophes correctly. The teaching of the English language appears very arbitrary these days, and it seems that ...

Children from poor homes should be given priority over the middle classes in admissions to top state schools, according to the chairman of the newly-formed Grammar Schools Heads' Association. Shaun ...