Question

Both efforts to enforce and efforts to deviate from standard English in a school setting frequently evoke controversy. What did the schools in Oakland, California, that introduced Ebonics seek to accomplish?

Answer 1

Answer:

A. To help African-American children succeed in school

Explanation:

The options are:

A. To help African American children succeed in school

B. To introduce a new federal policy that allowed the teaching of nonstandard English

C. To replace standard English with black English in the school district.

D. To certify teachers as proficient in black English.

Option A is correct because that was exactly what the schools in Oakland, California desired to achieve.

Oakland, California School Board came to take the decision and passed a resolution which declared Ebonics to be a language that is "genetically-based" for her African Americans. It was not to be regarded as a dialect of English.

Ebonics originated in 1973 when it was first coined by African American social psychologist, Robert Williams.