Guest Essay: Teen Library Council gives Carmel teenagers a voice There’s a reason your voice lies halfway between your head and your heart. For me, I found my voice at Carmel Clay Public Library’s outreach program dubbed Teen Library Council (TLC). Whether it was at the closed Marsh grocery store…
Boundaries of academic languages should not be shifted in the classroom The Perse School of Cambridge, United Kingdom, studied the seemingly contestable question of whether slang and dialect should be accepted as standard English in essays and more formal writing. Ultimately, they concluded slang should not be accepted in standard English…