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Teacher Knowledge: Leveraging African American English to Build Skilled Readers
Julie Washington, Ph.D., Carla Burrell Stanford, M.Ed.![Black students working in the classroom](https://files.readinguniverse.org/Images/Black-students-working-in-the-classroom.jpg)
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