An occasional survey of things that are not so:
The Washington Post reported on Monday that under pressure from the new-form SAT, schools are reviving grammar instruction. Reporter Daniel de Vise explained:
Grammar lessons vanished from public schools in the 1970s, supplanted by a more holistic view of English instruction.
Objectively untrue! Formal grammar lessons, complete with sentence-diagramming exercises, survived in public schools through the end of the 1980s, at least.
