Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | Short Essay Assignments

Short Essay Questions

The 60 short essay questions listed in this section require a one to two sentence answer. They ask students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the text. Students must describe what they've read, rather than just recall it.

Short Essay Question - Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991,"

1. Compare Baldwin's experience teaching in the urban school district in Boston and the suburban school district west of Boston.

2. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.

3. How does Kozol describe the neighborhoods in which the urban schools he visited were located?

4. How does the pre-desegregation of schools compare to the post-desegregation?

5. Why does Kozol decide to leave teaching and focus on other social issues?

6. Why,...
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