17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Two minor points: First, Ebonics (Black English) is grammatical, but its grammar differs from that of standard American English. Second, from what I heard on the news, Oakland wants to call it a separate language because they discovered that they got better results teaching standard English to Black students if they used secondary language techniques, as opposed to treating Black English constructions as "wrong" or "inferior." Martin Minow minow@apple.com