Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29