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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. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the suburbs of New York?

2. Which school did President George H.W. Bush attend?

3. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?

4. How long do some of the students at Morris High School think it will be before blacks and whites work together to better public education?

5. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?

2. Describe PS 261.

3. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

4. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?

5. Why would the students at Woodrow Wilson High want to remain there rather than attending a school with better resources?

6. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?

7. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?

8. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.

9. Where does Delabian Rice-Thurston say the rich and middle class in Washington, D.C. try to send their children to school? Why don't the poor parents send their children to the same schools?

10. Why do public schools in certain areas of New York suffer more than others?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the urban public school systems in New York and Camden. How are these two urban school systems similar? How are they different? Please use specific examples from the book? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

In his interviews, Kozol asks several individuals what they think is the answer to better schools. Based on the book Savage Inequalities, what are some of the ways to better schools? How can these ways be implemented in the schools/communities? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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