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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?
(a) Doctors.
(b) The child.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

2. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?
(a) Saw no value in educaiton.
(b) Not enough homework.
(c) No adult cared if they stayed.
(d) Too much homework.

3. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?
(a) Villages.
(b) Towns.
(c) Cities.
(d) Societies.

4. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
(a) A failure.
(b) A success.
(c) An adequate system.
(d) An equal system.

5. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Parents.
(c) Hope.
(d) Grandparents.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?

2. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?

3. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?

4. What is considered by Ayers an epidemic in our schools known as a toxic habit with no limits?

5. What sport was Jose La Luz involved in?

(see the answer key)

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