If vigorous jazz leaves you faint, Kenny Garrett's eighth Warner album, Standard of Language, will knock you out cold. It is intense and unrelenting in its goal of cutting a new edge on the traditions ...

IN my previous column, I discussed the nature of language standards. In this column, I wish to highlight what a standard language is not — or quite possibly, dispel what most people think it is but ...

German is the standard language that is used above all in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. But how did German come to be the standard language? And how has the perception of standard German ...

Putting the common-core standards into practice in classrooms is a monumental change for teachers in the nation’s public schools, but for educators who work with English-language learners, the shifts ...