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Ian Cushing

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Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University @ManMetUni. Language, race, and (in)equality in schools.

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tiered vocabulary is a pervasive concept in schools. but where did it come from? in forthcoming work in Language & Education i trace its roots and expose how it emerged from experiments in the 1980s which framed Black, working-class children as linguistically inferior.

tiered vocabulary is a pervasive concept in schools. but where did it come from? in forthcoming work in Language & Education i trace its roots and expose how it emerged from experiments in the 1980s which framed Black, working-class children as linguistically inferior.
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