It has become apparent that the debate over Black English/Ebonics has finally come to a head. In December, 1996, the Oakland Unified School District brought the debate to the forefront by taking a stand on the issue, and perhaps it is time for Black Psychologists to move toward taking a stand as well.
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Rethinking Schools is pleased to present this special issue, "The Real Ebonics Debate: Language, Power, and the Education of African-American Children." For the first time in the history of Rethinking Schools, guest editors have solicited and written the articles, and overseen editorial content from inception...
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"The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children," is edited by Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit. Based on a special issue of Rethinking Schools (Fall, 1997), it is published in collaboration with Beacon Press of Boston.
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Kwame Holman reports on the Ebonics debate, which has moved to the United States Senate. ... KWAME HOLMAN: Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Arlen Specter said he held today's hearing to help clear up the nationwide controversy over using so-called "Ebonics" to help teach African-American students.
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The ebonics debate has become almost as indecipherable as trying to follow an argument in a foreign language. Depicted as yet another battle in the confrontation of black and white America, in fact it reflects rising multiminority tensions over resources and respect. ... Without weighing in on the "Is it a language?" debate,
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Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children, The from Multicultural Education provided by Find Articles at BNET ... All of these individuals, some of whom speak Ebonics eloquently themselves, were either ambivalent toward or totally rejected the Oakland proposal. How could this be?
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One uncontroversial principle underlying the Oakland Unified School District's December 18th "Ebonics" resolution is the truism that people can't learn from each other if they don't speak the same language. Anyone who doubts this has only to read the current public debate about the resolution itself.
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The term Ebonics (a blend of ebony and phonics) gained recognition in 1996 as a result of the Oakland School Board’s use of the term in its proposal to use African American English in teaching Standard English in the Oakland Schools.
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The Ebonics Debate: Perspectives and Possibilties ... Ebonics may be defined as the linguistic and paralinguistic features which on a concentric continuum represent the communicative competence of the West African, Caribbean and the United States slave descendants of African origin. ... Prevailing Responses to the Ebonics Debate...
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Ebonics is a language system characteristic of certain speech communities in the United States, especially (but not exclusively) African American communities in urban areas and the South. ... The three most important discoveries of linguistics with regard to the current debate are:
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