Ebonics Ain't the Answer

By: Patricia Smith
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1
Date: Winter 1997

Summary: Smith argues for the primacy of Standard English in the schools. "As black kids, we were introduced to a world we had to enter in order to survive, and . . . offered the tools to get there."

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