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Patricia A. Young – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2014
Produced in 1977, "Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program" could have transformed what we presently know as urban education. However, "Bridge" met with the disapproval of parents, communities, and school districts. The execution of a truly transformative curriculum died as an experimental project implemented in urban school…
Descriptors: African American Students, Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Junior High School Students
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Pittman, Ramona T.; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Carreker, Suzanne – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
The purpose of this eight week study was to provide explicit instruction to improve spelling to 124 sixth grade students who are speakers of African American English (AAE). Two classroom teachers taught 14 different language arts class sections. The research design was a pretest/posttest/posttest design using wait-list-control. The treatment group…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, African American Culture, Grade 6