Lessons from Lucy Laney: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

Educators at Lucy Laney Elementary honor the home dialect of students at a school where 90 percent of kids are African American. African American Vernacular English, or AAVE, refers to the distinctive dialect historically spoken by African Americans, a style formerly known as Ebonics.
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