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xiv, 227 pages ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"Published in collaboration with Rethinking schools." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220). |
| Contents |
"I 'on know why they be trippin'" : reflections on the Ebonics debate / Theresa Perry -- What should teachers do? : Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- Black English/Ebonics : what it be like? / Geneva Smitherman -- If Ebonics isn't a language, then tell me, what is? (pace James Baldwin, 1979) / Wayne O'Neil -- What is Black English? What is Ebonics? / Ernie Smith -- Holding on to a language of our own : an interview with linguist John Rickford -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? / James Baldwin -- Ebonics : myths and realities / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Embracing Ebonics and teaching Standard English : an interview with Oakland teacher Carrie Secret -- An ante-bellum sermon [poem] ; The seedling [poem] / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Kitchen poets and classroom books : literature from children's roots / Terry Meier -- "Listen to your students" : an interview with Oakland High School English teacher Hafeezah AdamaDavia Dalji -- Teaching teachers about Black communications / Terry Meier -- Ebonics speakers and cultural, linguistic, and political test bias / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Removing the mask : roots of oppression through omission / Monique Brinson -- The Oakland Ebonics resolution [full text of the Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force] -- Ebonics resolution revisions -- The Oakland policy statement [Policy Statement of the Oakland School Board that accompanied the original resolution] -- Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students -- What is the Standard English Proficiency Program? -- Oakland superintendent responds to critics of the Ebonics Policy / Carolyn Getridge -- Linguistics Society of America Resolution on Ebonics -- "What go round come round" : King in perspective / Geneva Smitherman -- Opening Pandora's box : an interview with Oakland School Board member Toni Cook -- An Oakland student speaks out / Michael Lampkins --Ebonics and the role of the community : an interview with activist Isaac Taggert -- Official language, unofficial reality : acquiring bilingual/bicultural fluency in a segregated southern community / Joyce Hope Scott -- Black English : steppin up? Lookin back / Beverly Jean Smith. |
| Audience |
1320 Lexile. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Education.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- African American students.
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Black English.
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African American children -- Language.
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Language and education -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Perry, Theresa.
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Delpit, Lisa D.
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| Added Title |
Rethinking schools.
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| ISBN |
0807031453 paper alkaline paper |
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