Berkeley's participation in Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act, comprises six components: (1) Language Development provided intensive inservice training to all personnel, reading skills specialists, and an extensive after school tutorial program; (2) E.S.E.A. provided a saturated program in mathematics in each designated school, including…

As part of the development of a battery of tests to determine proficiency in black standard and nonstandard speech, the authors developed a two-part test consisting of 20 items designed to evoke a response by means of verbal and pictorial cues. Each cue was supposed to elicit a specific grammatical construction characteristic of either black…