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Parks, Stephen – 2000
This book relates the story of the 1974 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) resolution on Students' Right to Their Own Language (SRTOL), and sets this up against the story of how Composition Studies developed as a professional field and sets both against the larger history of 1960s movements, the liberal welfare state, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Usage

Foster, Michele – Theory into Practice, 1992
Shared cultural backgrounds and norms about how to use language can influence classroom interactions for minorities, including African Americans. Research finds serious problems when teachers' interactional styles differ from that of students' home communities. The differences can prevent full student participation and limit academic progress.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Black Dialects