ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter concurs with Delpit (1995) that teachers have an obligation to provide their students with access to elite (Standard) English — despite the hegemonic risks of doing so. However, it disagrees with Delpit that these so-called “codes of power” should be explicitly taught. It also finds the Street Law class to be a largely effective model for teaching elite ways of talk in that its inductive and implicit manner begins to approximate successful, apprentice-like models of learning.
