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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
2. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
3. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?
4. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
5. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
Short Essay Questions
1. Compare Baldwin's experience teaching in the urban school district in Boston and the suburban school district west of Boston.
2. Why does Kozol say he wrote the book Savage Inequalities?
3. Why, in most cities, do the influential people that Kozol meets show little inclination to address the segregation in the pubic school system?
4. What financial cuts are proposed for the schools in East St. Louis? Why do cuts have to be made to the schools in East St. Louis? Who is responsible for making the cuts?
5. How does Kozol describe the Lawndale neighborhood?
6. What reasons does Irl Solomon give for young teachers not staying at Martin Luther King Jr. High?
7. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.
8. What problem exists at Lathrop Elementary School, and what is the source of this problem?
9. How does Kozol describe the neighborhoods in which the urban schools he visited were located?
10. Why does the author think that many wealthy people think it is okay if poor children receive fewer advantages?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
According to Kozol, non-white leaders are often picked to solve local school problems. Why is it assumed that non-white leaders are the best candidate to solve the problems of local urban school systems? Who would be the best candidate(s) to solve the local school problems? Why?
Essay Topic 2
What are some of the difference that exist between urban schools and suburban schools in East Lawndale (Chapter 1, Life on the Mississippi) and North Lawndale (Chapter 2, Other People's Children)? Based on Kozol's account of the school systems, why do these differences exist? What are some ways that these differences can be eliminated? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Kozol has his class read Langston Hughes poem, A Dream Deferred. Based on Kozol's interviews, how does this poem apply to the lives of the children Kozol visits in the urban public school systems? Why would their dreams be deferred? What happens to those students whose dreams are deferred? Please use specific examples from the book.
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