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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 are two of the problems that Vernon Dover, principal of Pyne Point Junior High, tells Kozol exist at his school?
2. Why did the city of Chicago construct the high-speed Dan Ryan Expressway to go around certain parts of the city?
3. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?
4. What did the press report soon after Kozol's visit to the Anacostia elementary school?
5. How does Harper's mother describe her life in an Anacostia neighborhood?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?
2. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.
3. Describe PS 79.
4. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?
5. How does the court ultimately rule in the class-action suit filed in 1981 by parents of school children in East Orange, Camden, Irvington, and Jersey City? What is the reaction of wealthier tax payers?
6. How does Kozol describe the D.C. school system?
7. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?
8. How do the children attending public schools in the suburbs of New York that Kozol interviews feel about sharing funding and resources with children at urban public schools?
9. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?
10. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kozol shows the financial differences between the amount that public urban schools spend per pupil and the amount that public suburban schools spend per pupil. Why do these differences exist? Why don't the parents of students attending poor urban schools fight the school board for school funding equal to that of the suburban public school systems? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Kozol focuses on state and federal regulation of schools. In what ways do the states regulate the schools? In what ways does the federal government regulate American school system? How are these responsibilities divided amongst the state and federal entities? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
In the chapter entitled, The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York, Kozol travels to two schools that have issues with space. What limitations does the issue of space put on the teachers, students, and administrators? What future issues could arise because of the limited space at the schools? Please use specific examples from the book.
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