No. Neither this essay nor the Oakland school system announcement that prompted it ever suggested "teaching AAVE in school". As the essay points out: that would be stupid, since students arrive at school already knowing AAVE.
The bulk of the essay is an exploration of what AAVE actually is. Some of what emerges debunks the notion --- casually tossed off in your comment --- that the rules of AAVE are somehow lower-class; many of them are shared by other dialects of English, and even more are present in the primary dialects of other languages.
Even more persuasive is the essay's central implied point: contrary to your description of AAVE as "street talk", AAVE is an intricately and rigidly defined dialect of English. You can't speak or write it simply by mangling Standard English. Well-educated writers who have samples of AAVE to work from fail comprehensively at replicating it, as the essay demonstrates in its hilarious payoff.
To the extent the essay concerns itself with AAVE education, it's to point out that AAVE-aware education produces superior results in outcomes for Standard English education, in the same sense that teaching French people to speak Standard English is easier when you allow the speakers to acknowledge the French language.
The bulk of the essay is an exploration of what AAVE actually is. Some of what emerges debunks the notion --- casually tossed off in your comment --- that the rules of AAVE are somehow lower-class; many of them are shared by other dialects of English, and even more are present in the primary dialects of other languages.
Even more persuasive is the essay's central implied point: contrary to your description of AAVE as "street talk", AAVE is an intricately and rigidly defined dialect of English. You can't speak or write it simply by mangling Standard English. Well-educated writers who have samples of AAVE to work from fail comprehensively at replicating it, as the essay demonstrates in its hilarious payoff.
To the extent the essay concerns itself with AAVE education, it's to point out that AAVE-aware education produces superior results in outcomes for Standard English education, in the same sense that teaching French people to speak Standard English is easier when you allow the speakers to acknowledge the French language.