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Article: Ebonics IQI. What have we learned ? (use of Ebonics language to teach African American children)(Cover Story)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 23, 1997
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The Ebonics controversy in Oakland, California, took many people by surprise. Most had never heard of Ebonics before December 18, 1996, and once they did, few understood what the school district meant when it expressed its intent to use this new "language" to teach the district's African American children.
To understand how Oakland wound up at the eye of this storm, it is important to recognize the current situation of African American students in that district, and the political history of Ebonics in California schools.
Anatomy of a Controversy
For the past fifteen years, California teachers have had the option of participating in the ...