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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 does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
2. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?
3. What state is Camden located in?
4. What did the press report soon after Kozol's visit to the Anacostia elementary school?
5. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?
Short Essay Questions
1. What three Supreme Court justices wrote dissents for the Milliken v. Bradley case? Why did each dissent?
2. 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?
3. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?
4. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?
5. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?
6. What problems do highly selective schools create in New York? Why do they create these problems?
7. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.
8. Why does Kozol think that inner city problems would not be totally solved by better schools?
9. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.
10. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the book's forward entitled, Looking Backward: 1964-1991, Kozol describes his teaching experience as an innovative teacher at an urban Boston public school. In later chapters, Kozol describes how other teachers try to be innovative despite their lack of resources. Give three detailed examples from the book Savage Inequalities of how teachers in the urban school districts Kozol visits are innovative with limited resources. How are these teachers innovative? Where do they find the resources to continue to be innovative? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Racial discrimination is a major theme in the book Savage Inequalities. What reasons does Kozol give for racial discrimination being the reason that poor urban schools receive less funding? Why does Kozol think the inequalities have more to do with race than with economics? Do you agree with Kozol's reasons for why the inequalities exist at poor urban schools? Why or why not? Please use specific examples from the book.
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