1. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) School.
(b) Daycare.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Childhood.

2. According to Ayers, what is the mentality of schools?
(a) Profit-driven.
(b) Teacher centered.
(c) Student-centered.
(d) Administration centered.

3. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Create the "factory" student.
(b) Teach great lessons.
(c) Teach students one on one.
(d) To manage the mob.

4. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The student-centered model.
(b) The deficit model.
(c) The surplus model.
(d) The teacher-centered model.

5. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Nel Noddings.
(d) Maxine Greene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?

2. What became a helpful guide to teaching for Ayers and other teachers?

3. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

4. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?

5. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?

(see the answer key)

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