The National Science Foundation coughed up $447,492 to the University of North Carolina for an Ebonics study that will follow 70 low-income black students to witness “development of African-American English.”  The goal is to see if speaking proper English makes for better, more literate students. The going hypothesis is that those “bilingual” kids who can switch seamlessly between Alex P. Keaton and Flavor Flav will “demonstrate higher levels of reading achievement.” Word.
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