The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children UPDATE:Default Title Date: 01/25/2017

Date: 01/25/2017

whose downfall was now at hand

Date: 5/2/2000

Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence

The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children UPDATE:Default Title Date: 01/25/2017Author Contributor(s): Perry, Theresa; Delpit, Lisa Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 6 17 1998 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In the winter of 1996, the Oakland school board's resolution recognizing Ebonics as a valid linguistic system generated a brief firestorm of hostile criticism and misinformation, then faded from public consciousness. But in the classrooms of America, the question of how to engage the distinctive language of many African