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Beyond "Ebonics."
Marlowe, John – American School Board Journal, 1997
Describes why the Oakland School Board proposed to apply African Language Systems principles to move students closer to English proficiencies. The board's objective--to raise the language skills of African-American students--was interpreted as a proposal to teach substandard English and was used to validate racist dialog. The public furor ignored…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education