As the article points out, there is evidence from Norwegian experiments that "[t]eaching children to read first in their own dialects and then gradually introdu

As the article points out, there is evidence from Norwegian experiments that "[t]eaching children to read first in their own dialects and then gradually introducing the standard language can speed and improve the acquisition of reading skills." Further, "[i]n Oakland itself... it was found that teachers who condemned AAVE pronunciations [sic] and interpreted them as reading errors got the worst results in teaching AAVE-speaking children to read, while teachers who used AAVE creatively in the classroom got the best results." I couldn't find evidence in the article that anyone was telling young black Americans that they could talk like "hoodlums" and expect to get ahead in life.