Attorneys with the Student Advocacy Center argued the children did not possess learning disabilities, but instead spoke African American English, a language the school's white teachers struggled to ...

But African American English also includes more formal or standard ... she couldn’t understand her white classmates and ...

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organized, it describes patterns in the sentence structure, sound ...

For me, as an African American teacher, and having taught The Bluest ... my class feels more of a cultural studies class than an English class. The way I teach is that we explore the world ...