The Oakland School Board’s resolution has changed how some Ebonics-speaking children get to learn and has permitted some schools to take the child’s language and use it to create lessons based on these children’s cultural background, which has allowed for Ebonics speakers who were failing before to receive help, geared towards them learning Standard English. As Duku Anokye said in A Case for Orality in the Classroom, the “African American Vernacular English (AAVE)”, which means Ebonics, is a language just like any other; it “is simply linguistically different” (p. 79). We need to use this language to assist Ebonics-speaking students in learning. Just as Bree Picower gives examples in her article, we now know Ebonics-speakers will gain a better
