African American Vernacular English (or Black English), notoriously politicized as Ebonics, took center stage in 1996 when the Oakland, California, school board voted to recognize it as a ...

PEOPLE seemed pretty clear on the latest California controversy in which the Oakland school board accepted “Ebonics” as a black “language” that should be taught to English teachers.

I couldn’t make up my mind about the Oakland, California, school board’s decision last month to certify Ebonics as an official language for black folks, so I decided to consult the experts.

The recent decision by California’s Oakland school board was, of course, the instigating event for all the disgust floating around. They decided to teach “Ebonics,” the appalling English ...

The word still carries a negative connotation more than a decade after the Oakland, Calif., school board ignited a national firestorm of debate when it proposed teaching some students in Ebonics.

The classroom artifacts sum up the state of ebonics in Oakland a month after the school board’s decision ... an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley.

Education Secretary Richard Riley denied Oakland the opportunity to even make a formal request for funding, announcing beforehand that the government considers Ebonics a nonstandard ... a number of ...

In addition, U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley and California schools chief Delaine Eastin have issued blistering criticisms of Oakland’s foray into Ebonics. Still, interest by officials in ...

California educator Toni Cook says ... boards from teaching black English in the classroom. Oakland’s Cook, though, maintains the Ebonics plan was distorted by the media.

The Oakland, Calif., School Board adopted a resolution that called for teachers and students to be instructed in Ebonics, which they defined as a distinct, “genetically based” language and not ...