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...when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...
...getting good jobs and leaving their impoverished neighborhoods. This seems like an increase in social fluidity by any definition. As a matter of fact, Ebonics was proposed primarily because it seemed to have been helping these kids. It was suggested, according to the Washington Post, because members of the Oakland School Board noticed that an Ebonics program in Oakland was already helping 3,000 African-American students make strides academically, at a rate faster than their classmates in the regular classes. Furthermore, the country's largest group of linguists, the 6,000-member Linguistic Society of America, unanimously voted...
...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...