Part one of term paper
Over the pass few months, a controversial subject regarding the education of African American students in the Oakland School District has made its way to the top of discussions across America. “Ebonics” or African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Vernacular Black English (VBE) has been erroneously called “slang,” “broken Engl ...

Part two of term paper
... and finally lowering the students’ self-esteem and confidence are equally significant in the fight against Ebonics. Oakland Unified School District strongly disagrees with the linguists and the Board of Education opinion of lowering student’s academic standards and proposes its ambitious professional development goal: ensuring that teachers understand the structural details of AAVE so that they can draw on Black students' linguistic proficiency. Attitudes toward the vernacular dialect may well ...