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Originally Posted by DaleDe
There is certainly influence but no regulation. The government has standards for its own publications and schools have books defining the preferred forms and of course the real authority is the built in spelling checker  Spelling is pretty standardized, new words added every year, and grammar is taught in the schools in a standardized way. The country is so large that accents and local usage does happen. The is exacerbated by the state system within the US. Individual states regulate things like text books and a teacher typically must have knowledge of the local states history including formal courses. This latter requirement causes teachers not to move between states and therefore the localization of language tends to get taught and propagated.
Dale |
You're obviously a much faster typist than I am!
We teachers rely on the textbooks and dictionaries that are provided by the School Boards of our district. Textbook adoption is generally done through a committee of educators (both teachers and administrators), where they sit through presentations of available textbook series and then preview them for content. Generally a textbook adoption lasts around 5 years (at least at the Elementary level and contingent upon the school district's needs). I guess the bottom line is that, ultimately, it is the publishers who tell us what is correct as they are the ones printing and publishing the textbooks.