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...received a forwarded e-mail that had circulated through Penn, Andover, Hotchkiss, Princeton and Yale (to name a few of the schools) titled "Ebonics Test." The forward begins with the explanation, "A friend of mine has an 18 year-old son named Leroy. He attends Oakland High School where they teach Ebonics as a second language. Last week he was given a homework assignment. All he had to do was use each of the following words in a sentence...
Ebonic fever is the term that I use to describe the current national obsession with the American dialect spoken mostly by the black lower-class community. The dialect has been identified and studied for years, but only in small academic circles. Only since the recent decision by the Oakland, Calif. school board to officially recognize Ebonics as a second language has the public at large cared about it, or even bothered to listen to the academics. Since then, Ebonics has made the front page of every major newspaper across the country, has been the main subject on every major news...
WASHINGTON: Oakland School District Superintendent Carolyn Getridge defended her board?s attempt to introduce ebonics into the curriculum on Capital Hill Thursday. "What is at issue here are the steps we are willing to take to address the chronic underachievement of these students," Getridge told a Senate subcommittee. She argued that judgments about the proper place of ebonics in the field of official languages are not her concern. Her goal, she said, is to address the 1.8 grade point average of black students in the Oakland school district, which compares with an average 3.0 for white and Asian students...
...owned the Los Angeles Rams, got the Colts in a 1972 franchise swap with Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom. By taking his team to Indianapolis in March of 1984, Irsay kicked off the modern wave of NFL team relocations, which has seen teams from Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Oakland jump to other cities for more money. In a desperate attempt to prevent the Colts from leaving, the Maryland House voted to give Baltimore the power to take over the team through eminent domain. But by the time the city sent Irsay a telegram offering $40 million for the franchise...
...Williams and Joe Deter. I would never have watched the Kansas City Chiefs/Detroit Lions game on Thanksgiving if a girl in my dorm didn't live in Kansas and wasn't always talking about the mighty Chiefs. Though I still have to draw the line at rooting for the Oakland Raiders, the Dallas Cowboys and the Yankees (most of the time), I have discovered in the last three months that there are many more teams I feel good about supporting. Behind each team is a town or city, and now that I know people from so many more towns...