The War Against Grammar

The War Against Grammar, by David Mulroy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at Wisconsin Interest

"Within living memory, public school sixth graders were required to explicate selections in McGuffey’s readers, which included unaltered scenes from Shakespearean plays and poems like William Cullen Bryant’s Thanatopsis ... . Flashing forward to 1998, Wisconsin’s DPI [Department of Public Instruction] proposes a high school graduation test. In the English Language Arts portion, it plans to ask graduating seniors questions like: 'What can be assumed about caring for the garment that has this care label attached? ... .'"

The article was expanded to book length and published in 2003.

Here is an Interview of David Mulroy, Grammar Revolution Movie video, YouTube