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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 type of early child care program can the principal at PS79 not start at his school?
2. At an elementary school in Anacostia, Kozol speaks with a young girl named Tunisia. What is not one of the things that Tunisia tell Kozol she would do if she had a lot of money?
3. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
4. How many students from Woodrow Wilson, according to Kozol, sign up to take the SAT in the spring of 1990 when he visits?
5. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?
2. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?
3. What does Tunisia, a student at Anacostia Elementary School, say that she would do if she had money? Why?
4. 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?
5. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?
6. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.
7. What problems do highly selective schools create in New York? Why do they create these problems?
8. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?
9. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?
10. How do the suburban schools in New York compare to the urban schools in New York?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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.
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