Language Lessons. / Kathleen Kennedy Manzo.
by Kennedy Manzo, Kathleen; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 7Institutions. Publisher: Education Week, 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): African American students | Black English | Education -- Curricula | English language -- Study and teaching | Oakland (California)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "The Oakland school board provided grist for editorial writers and commentators from coast to coast with its December 1996 'ebonics' resolution, which recognized the language used by a majority of the black students in the district as essentially different from that of most English-speakers and ordered that children be instructed in that language." (EDUCATION WEEK) This article examines the educational campaign being used by school officials to teach students the language form of ebonics.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Language Lessons, April 17, 2002; pp. 30-35.
"The Oakland school board provided grist for editorial writers and commentators from coast to coast with its December 1996 'ebonics' resolution, which recognized the language used by a majority of the black students in the district as essentially different from that of most English-speakers and ordered that children be instructed in that language." (EDUCATION WEEK) This article examines the educational campaign being used by school officials to teach students the language form of ebonics.
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