[etni] Schooling students on grammar

Schooling students on grammar
Educators agree emphasis needed
The Courier-Journal - December 9, 2006

Each year she drills her students on nominative case and objective case, 
plurals and possessives, objects of prepositions, direct and indirect 
objects, and spelling rules.
"I do it all," said Pfeffer, who teaches eighth-graders and juniors at 
Beechwood High School in Kenton County.

Pfeffer's focus is something of a novelty in the education world, where 
grammar drills and sentence diagramming were replaced years ago in many 
classrooms with a holistic approach that focused on fostering students' 
creativity and taught grammar through writing and literature.

Teaching grammar "was just very unfashionable," said Pfeffer, who noted that 
colleagues in other school districts are not allowed to buy grammar books or 
teach grammar lessons. "… But I just knew how important it was."

Now the education pendulum is swinging back, re-emphasizing grammar to the 
pleasure of Pfeffer and others.

This new emphasis is being driven largely by a growing concern that students 
are not learning the grammar and composition skills they need to succeed in 
college and in the workplace.

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