Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English - William Brennan

Does Code-Switching help student learn?
​The speech pathologist believes that helping kids switch seamlessly between dialects is a key to their success.
"By the end of fourth grade, 'switching' students—that is, students who are proficient in both their home dialect and standard English—score at least a full academic year ahead of their nonswitching classmates in reading."

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