The uproar over Ebonics is predictable ... African-Americans’ 1.80 average grade point is the lowest in the district; 19 percent who make it to 12th grade do not graduate.

African American Vernacular English (or Black English), notoriously politicized as Ebonics, took center stage ... Blacks students had a grade point average of 1.8 on a 4 point scale, while ...

Opponents of the idea contend that recognizing Ebonics will only handicap African ... earned a 1.8 out of a 4.0 grade point average, the lowest in the district. Only 37 percent of honors students ...

ATLANTA — The feds are looking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of drug dealers, according to federal records.

America’s unreflective dismissal of Ebonics is rather fascinating, not because many see it as a “lesser” form of English, but rather because society fails, for the most part, to dip its feet ...

(CNN)-- Wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration: Ebonics translators. It might sound like a punch line, as "Ebonics" -- the common name for what linguists call African-American English ...

Talks are underway to possibly include Ebonics as a part of the curriculum in a California school district as a way to boost test scores among African-American students, reports MSNBC.com.

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations. The Drug Enforcement ...

Such is an Associated Press report that the Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking speakers of Ebonics who can do translation work for its agents in the Southeast. The AP reported: ATLANTA (AP ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret’s classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as “Ebonics.” Over in a corner ...

It may be raising some eyebrows, but the Drug Enforcement Administration insists it needs to hire at least nine people fluent in Ebonics. The DEA's Atlanta office has been looking for Ebonics ...

(CNN)-- Wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration: Ebonics translators. It might sound like a punch line, as "Ebonics" -- the common name for what linguists call African-American English ...