The Truth About English Grammar by Geoffrey K Pullum review – the pants rule and other pipe dreams
A breezy guide to grammar sides with the ordinary Joe against the nitpickers
‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books
The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities
Richard Abraham obituary
Other lives: History teacher and writer on the leading figures of the Russian revolution
The big idea: why we need to put death on the curriculum
Most British children experience bereavement, and schools should help them deal with it
Children reading fewer, less challenging books, UK and Ireland study finds
Survey of more than 1.2 million pupils finds a decrease in volume of books read, with a ‘sharp drop’ in difficulty for older secondary students
How US schools became a political battleground: ‘These are proxies for a bigger clash in society’
In They Came for the Schools, Mike Hixenbaugh looks at how a conservative agenda caused conflict in his Texas school system
Chris Williams obituary
Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries
Maureen O’Connor obituary
Other lives: Crime novelist and founding editor of Education Guardian
Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots
Shalina Patel’s book highlights stories traditionally left out of the textbooks, particular those of women and people of colour
Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
‘I now know that anything is possible’: from a women’s shelter to Cambridge University
No matter how low you sink, your dreams can still come true: one woman’s inspirational story, by Maxine Nwaneri
Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton review – breathing new life into old texts
How one teacher wrestles meaning and relevance from classics of English literature
Who has been treated most unfairly by history?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA
Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs
‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ sales
A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world