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"Gross Memorial Award from the National Association of Scholars for his distinguished service, as the founder and director of the Certificate Program in the Study of Liberal Arts through Great Books at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Sensing a serious problem, Mulroy (2003) set about to write this book to persuade the reader that emphasis on formal instruction in grammar is considered as a must in K-12 education, especially in the middle grades (Lotchin, 2005).
Dr. Mulroy has answered this question in positive; the progressive educators have always disapproved of the study of grammar, on the grounds that we all learn to speak our first language fluently without it (Shaughnessy, 2005).
In 1996, Mulroy, a classics scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, attended a public hearing about the state's academic standards and innocently suggested that all high school seniors should be required to identify the eight parts of speech in a selection of normal prose.
Chapter one of this book deals with the adult literacy (lower among those who were educated in the 60s and 70s when opposition to grammar arose than among older adults), the decline of SAT scores, the need for remedial English at the college level, and the decline in the percentage of students taking foreign languages in college (16.
Mulroy suggests that students have difficulty with foreign languages, since they were not taught English grammar in grade school; there can be little doubt about this."