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...fact, ETS is moving as aggressively as a for-profit corporation would in seeking to expand its business. Among other things, the service is using computers and interactive video in new grammar-school courses that are designed to advance critical-thinking skills. In a program currently under development in Brookline, Mass., students play reporters who "investigate" a story from classical mythology under the direction of a computerized editor and their homeroom teacher. Then the youngsters write a story on what they have discovered. ETS is also working with computers to redesign the National Teachers Exam, used in 34 states...
...like the title. It was orginally titiled Mistakes of Metaphor and my friends still call it that, but my publicist thought it sounded like a grammar book. The present title was taken from a phrase in the book by my agent...
...down side, I'm afraid I correct people's English even more readily than I used to, making me a veritable Attilla the Hun of Grammar. My friends are getting a little annoyed at my role as Grammar...
...During the '80s the emphasis was on restoration. Gregorian liked to call the main building the "people's palace"; the library became perhaps the city's most fashionable benefit cause. But, reflecting the Bush era, the new buzz word is education, the province of the branches. "Essentially, we serve grammar school and junior high kids," says Healy, "and the agenda is not what you read but that you read...
...Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) introduced a gramatically flawed amendment to the Clean Air Act several weeks ago, Sen. John H. Chafee (D-R.I.)--reportedly called him on the carpet for using a split infinitive. Had Gore gone to Yale, Chafee told the Senate floor, his grammar might not be so atrocious. But Gore--displaying more with than he had in his unsuccessful presidential bid--got the last laugh. Gore asked Chafee where he received his second two years of schooling, implying that Yale was just a junior college and earning a hearty laugh from the gallery...