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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?
(a) Family.
(b) Values.
(c) Culture.
(d) Customs.

2. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?
(a) School.
(b) Life.
(c) Course work.
(d) Curriculum.

3. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?
(a) Ayers has been a life-long critic of standardized testing.
(b) Ayers believes standardized tests measure students accurately.
(c) Ayers supports the use of standardized tests.
(d) Ayers enjoys taking standardized tests.

4. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?
(a) The middle score.
(b) The lowest score.
(c) The middle score divided by 2.
(d) The highest score.

5. What city is La Escuela Fratney located?
(a) Flint, Michigan.
(b) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(c) Greenbay, Wisconsin.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ayers suggest should be the center of knowledge?

2. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?

3. Ayers suggests that _____________ tears down walls?

4. What did Ayers consider people were when people, no matter how professional, were given the power to set a standard?

5. Who was one of William Ayers mentors?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," describe Zayd's "coming of age" discoveries.

2. How does Ayers suggest people meet the problem of guidelines and mandates?

3. According to Ayers, what is one argument that supported proponents of phonics?

4. According to Ayers, how do teachers become students to their students?

5. What can't standardized tests measure?

6. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," describe the students at Imani School.

7. What are Ayers's feelings on standardized tests?

8. Describe Ayers's quest in teaching.

9. What does Ayers believe the fundamental curriculum question is?

10. According to Ayers, what does culture include?

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