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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 business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?
2. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?
3. Why did the city of Chicago construct the high-speed Dan Ryan Expressway to go around certain parts of the city?
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 the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Describe PS 261.
3. How do the suburban schools in New York compare to the urban schools in New York?
4. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?
5. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?
6. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?
7. Describe PS 79.
8. How does Kozol describe the D.C. school system?
9. What does Tunisia, a student at Anacostia Elementary School, say that she would do if she had money? Why?
10. Why would the students at Woodrow Wilson High want to remain there rather than attending a school with better resources?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kozol points out that racial discrimination is the cause of many of the inequalities that exist in the public school system. However, some of the individuals that he interviews think that it's a socioeconomic issue and not a race issue. Based on the book Savage Inequalities, are the problems that exist in urban public schools caused by racial discrimination, socioeconomic status, or both. Why? Provide at least three detailed reasons for your answer. 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
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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