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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Creating an Environment for Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Inequalities.
(b) Parents.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Schools.

2. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what did Ayers have children research for an assignment?
(a) The child's first name.
(b) The child's family's geneology.
(c) The area the child lived.
(d) The child's last name.

3. What is the focus of Ayers' book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Second Edition?
(a) The lives of the incarcerated.
(b) The lives of teachers.
(c) The lives of administrators.
(d) The lives of children.

4. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?
(a) Tired teachers.
(b) Experienced teachers.
(c) Crusading teachers.
(d) Kind teachers.

5. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?
(a) An old church.
(b) Cabrini Green.
(c) A habitat house.
(d) A shanty town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Chesa's teacher that admired Chesa's strengths instead of focusing on his weaknesses?

2. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?

3. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

4. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?

5. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?

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