Ed,

Thanks for your comments.  You know the saying.."Think globally, act 
locally"?

What if this group came up with a priority list and our members worked on 
introducing it in our local schools? I'm a great believer in grassroots 
movements. Maybe someone on this list could write a paper on the results.

I've been thinking about interviewing public school English teachers  to get 
to know where they are coming from and what they need. My community college 
students really like my descriptive perspective on dialects. They have so 
many stories of painful experiences around their native dialects being 
labeled bad, wrong, stupid and defective.

Let me know your thoughts.

--

Christine Reintjes Martin
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