Tag: literacy

  • 22nd April 2010

Are we giving up on the written word?

I couldn’t help but laugh when I stumbled on this story earlier today. In a nutshell, Michigan’s Grand Rapids Public School Superintendent Bernard Taylor has stirred up controversy – by criticising pupils’ poor spelling and grammar. The pupils, from Colt Creative Arts Academy, had written to Taylor asking him not to cut art and music [...]

  • 26th February 2010

When journalists’ illiteracy leaves them looking (at) a right tit

What a difference a day or two makes – on The Sun’s website at least. Just a couple of days ago, we were treated to this gem.