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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. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?

2. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?

3. According to Kozol, how are East St. Louis and Lawndale similar?

4. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?

5. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the urban public school that Kozol taught in while in Boston.

2. How the suburban public schools funded compared to the urban public schools?

3. How did East St. Louis become so poor?

4. What is there for residents to do in East St. Louis for fun?

5. What reasons does Irl Solomon give for young teachers not staying at Martin Luther King Jr. High?

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

7. What problems exist at Martin Luther King High School in East St. Louis?

8. What type of health issues exist in East St. Louis? Why do these illnesses exist?

9. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

10. Why is employment limited in East St. Louis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the Forward of the book, Kozol refers to the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. What is the significance of the Brown v. Board decision? According to the book, how has the school system remained the same since the judgment? What changes have been made since the Brown v. Board decision? Please use specific examples from the book.

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

The book Savage Inequalities depicts the inequalities that exist in the nation's public schools. What two problems seem to be common among the school systems that Kozol describes in the book? Describe these two problems and why they are considered problems. What suggestions would you make to improve these problems? Please use specific examples from the book.

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