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Harber, Jean R. – 1979
This study focused on one of the suggested causes of the poor academic performance evident among many black, lower socioeconomic status children, namely teachers' attitudes toward Black English. There is considerable empirical evidence to suggest that speakers of Black English are evaluated as inferior to speakers of Standard English by their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Blacks
