What is the Oakland school board resolution on Ebonics really about? The board argues that a high degree of proficiency in standard English can best be built by recognizing and building on the ...

Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression.

One of the hardest things for a black linguist is getting across, once and for all, something that the public never quite seems to get: Black English is not bad English. Over the years, people have ...

Ebonics is the story that won’t go away, no matter how much I wish it would. The Oakland School Board adopted a resolution during the Christmas holidays that called for teachers and African-American ...

Since the 1980s a small body of research has suggested that black students learn better when schools use Ebonics to teach standard English. A 1989 study of inner-city college students, for example, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret’s classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as “Ebonics.” Over in a corner ...

"Critical race theory" has become the demonized catchall phrase in the spirited national discourse about education and systemic racism. Supreme Court justices, politicians, parents and teachers have ...

OPINION - The DEA may not have known the full ramifications of its decision to label the language of many African-Americans, "Ebonics," but we bet they know now... The DEA may not have known the full ...

Rather than the complicated, controversial and costly solutions under consideration to improve Hartford’s schools, perhaps the board of education should consider adopting Oakland’s solution [news ...

The L. A. Unified school district's controversial “Ebonics” curriculum for black students has fared poorly in a preliminary evaluation, according to data obtained by the Weekly. Results of the ...

Ebonics is the story that won’t go away, no matter how much I wish it would. A controversy over whether “Ebonics” constitutes a language that can help black children learn standard English churned up ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But linguist John McWhorter ...