[DOC] [TLE] Oakland Ebonics resolution - Wikipedia [PAR] On December 18, 1996 the Oakland Unified School District school board of 
Oakland, California, United States passed a controversial resolution recognizing 
the legitimacy of Ebonics  what mainstream linguists more commonly term 
African American Vernacular English (AAVE)  as an African language ... School 
Board's decision to recognize the vernacular of African American... [DOC] [TLE] What happened in Oakland? - English [PAR] Oakland School Board Resolution, Dec. 18, 1996: African-American students 
utilize a language described ... prefer the term African-American Vernacular 
English (AAVE) and use it to ... 64% of students retained, or made to repeat a 
grade, were. African ... A special task force report focused on a number of issues: 
 relations... [DOC] [TLE] Oakland School District Recognizes Black English - latimes [PAR] Oakland School District Recognizes Black English ... December 20, 1996|
ELAINE WOO and MARY CURTIUS | TIMES STAFF WRITERS ... Language 
experts predicted that Oakland's decision will be closely watched by other school 
systems nationwide, ... the Los Angeles school board's only African American 
member, who... [DOC] [TLE] Views of linguists and anthropologists on the Ebonics issue (Part 1) [PAR] The Oakland School Board's December 18, 1996 proposal to recognize "Ebonics
," ... many African American students and argues for linguistically aware teaching 
techniques. ... at many levels between African American Vernacular English (
AAVE) and .... The Oakland School Board's decision to take Ebonics into account 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack [PAR] A 1996 OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD DECISION MADE MANY AWARE OF THIS 
TERM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH, EBONICS. IN 1950 CHUCK... [DOC] [TLE] The Pidgins and Creoles in Education (PACE) Newsletter [PAR] [Most readers are probably aware of the Ebonics debate that took place in the ... 
This arose from the December 1996 decision by the Oakland [California] School 
Board ... In the month that has elapsed since the Oakland School Board passed 
its ... attributed to African languages, English dialects, or pidgin-creole influences. [DOC] [TLE] English 2126: Modern English Grammar: Discussions about Ebonics ... [PAR] Starting in late December 1996, the American Dialect Society's email listserv 
hosted a ... the recommendation made by the Task Force on African-American 
Students. ... (a term combining "ebony" and "phonics") as the language of many 
blacks. .... In part the Oakland school board decision is an Ann Arbor type 
decision: "The... [DOC] [TLE] Salikoko Mufwene: Ebonics and Standard English in the Classroom ... [PAR] The Oakland Unified School District Board's resolutions of December 1996 about 
using ... English and perform better academically, brought to the surface a 
number of ... 1) Some of those claiming that African-American English (AAE) is a 
separate .... Despite the following definition of Ebonics proposed by Williams (
1975:vi)... [DOC] [TLE] Language Diversity and Academic Achievement in ... - John Rickford [PAR] ing their acquisition and mastery of English language skills. ... the vernacular of 
African American students (called Ebonics or Afri- .... Hutchison (1997), in a 
critique of the Oakland School Board and ..... Chicago made many errors with SE 
plural s-marking and few with .... An AAVE speaker who reads aloud the words I 
_. [DOC] [TLE] Articles from SF Chronicle, LA Times, Chicago ... - jan.ucc.nau.edu [PAR] The Oakland School Board says its resolution on ebonics has been widely ... I 
already knew the majority of teachers would not understand a word I said (they 
were ... the Oakland Unified School District's recent decision to declare black 
English a ... were made with bilingual education, which some African American 
parents... [DOC] [TLE] African-American English - Universidad Tecnolgica de Pereira [PAR] This speech, known as Ebonics or African American Vernacular English, ... A 
decision by the Oakland, California school district to recognize Ebonics as a ... It 
has (as will be shown) influenced even the speech produced in Great Britain. .... 
Many words and expressions have passed from AAVE into Standard English... [DOC] [TLE]

Question: A 1996 Oakland  School Board decision made many aware of this term for African-American English
Answer: Ebonics