Forwarded from <span class="gmail_quote"><a href="mailto:edling@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">edling@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a><br><br></span>Hartford Courant<br><br>Ebonics: The Subject Still Stirs Strong Feelings<br><br>Discussing the gap in language acquisition among students, Faye Gage used a term recently at a national conference on grammar instruction that can still raise some hackles: "Ebonics."
<br><br>"People are afraid of the Ebonics word," said Gage, director of the Connecticut Writing Project. "I have been told not to use it."<br><br>Her mention of it at the 18th annual conference of the Assembly for the
<br>Teaching of English Grammar, held at Fairfield University, didn't cause much of a stir among the 40 or so audience members. But outside of language circles, it's a topic that can kick up strong feelings more than 10 years after the Oakland school board caused a national furor by proposing an Ebonics program for its schools.
<br><br>Full story:<br><a href="http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-grammar.artjul23,0,4417781.story">http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-grammar.artjul23,0,4417781.story</a><br><br><br clear="all"><br>--
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