Oregon’s Progressive Discovery

Oddly enough the educational establishment in the state of Oregon has discovered  the benefits of good old-fashioned grammar.  In a wonderful trend, they are seeing a drastic rise in the success of their ESL programs with a recent teaching change:

Educators chalk up the improved results to a new way of teaching that has swept Oregon ESL classrooms in the past couple of years.

Schools have begun explicitly teaching the grammar, rules and structure of English. And they are doing it in a carefully ordered way, making sure that students don’t miss any of the building blocks of how English verbs are conjugated, words are ordered, conversations are expected to proceed and sentences are constructed.

 

You can read the full article here.  Just imagine what the results would be with the powerful combo of English Grammar and Latin.