Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Test | Final Test - Hard

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Test | Final Test - Hard

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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. Who is the former principal of East Side High School that was praised by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett?

2. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?

3. According to Kozol, what statistic does New York find hard to track?

4. What does the Wall Street Journal say has remained static while per-pupil spending has increased?

5. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?

2. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?

3. 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?

4. Describe PS 79.

5. Why does Kozol think that inner city problems would not be totally solved by better schools?

6. What similarity exist between selective schools in New York and Chicago?

7. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.

8. Describe PS 261.

9. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?

10. How does the court ultimately rule in the class-action suit filed in 1981 by parents of school children in East Orange, Camden, Irvington, and Jersey City? What is the reaction of wealthier tax payers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Racial discrimination is a major theme in the book Savage Inequalities. What reasons does Kozol give for racial discrimination being the reason that poor urban schools receive less funding? Why does Kozol think the inequalities have more to do with race than with economics? Do you agree with Kozol's reasons for why the inequalities exist at poor urban schools? Why or why not? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the Forward of the book, Kozol refers to the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. What is the significance of the Brown v. Board decision? According to the book, how has the school system remained the same since the judgment? What changes have been made since the Brown v. Board decision? Please use specific examples from the book.

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