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Is the new television show Boston Public doing more harm than good to the plight of America's teachers? Peter Brown talks exclusively to the show's star Chi McBride.

The March/April 2001 issue offers:

EBONICS
John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford discuss the role of Ebonics in African American culture. David Kirkland, Austin Jackson and Geneva Smitherman present the findings of their project that monitored various "Ebonics" sites on the World Wide Web.

IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
Steven Donahue examines current policies towards students with limited English abilities and assesses future plans to assist minorities in language education.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Paul Garcia reviews recent efforts to give direction to foreign language teaching in the U.S.

SPECIAL REPORT Gordon Rich explores the inner world of language among the incarcerated.

TEACHING IN JAPAN
Charles Jannuzi and Bern Mulvey argue that educators in Japan face similar challenges to their counterparts in the West.

PUBLISH OR PERISH
Andy Martin updates his overview of mergers and acquisitions in ESL publishing.

DIALECTS
Timothy Frazer explores English in the Midwest.

THE JOYS OF YIDDISH
Pekka Pietikœinen assesses the influence of Yiddish on American English.

ELECTRONIC EDUCATION
Barry Bakin continues his lessons for the one computer-classroom. Michael Howard takes a look at the Glearner project. Alan Cameron weighs up a tape-less language laboratory. Randall Davis talks to Kristina Pfaff-Harries, the creator of Linguistic Funland.

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