Opinion | English Is Everybody's Business. (Or Is it Boocie-ness? Or Boozy-ness?)
Briefly

"When I was in seventh grade, I had a language arts workbook that asked us to fill in the blanks with one of four words. Approaches varied, but the idea was to give students a sense of the range of our language's vocabulary and how to use it."
"I worry that my children will be left with the assumption, natural but unaware, that language is just words strung together. To think this is to lose out on wonder, and on great stories, too."
Read at www.nytimes.com
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