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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. What are two of the problems that Vernon Dover, principal of Pyne Point Junior High, tells Kozol exist at his school?
2. How much money does President H.W. Bush's alma-mater spend per student?
3. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?
4. Who is the former principal of East Side High School that was praised by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett?
5. After speaking to the kindergarten class at PS79, Kozol learns that one of the African-American boys in the class travels how long each day to get to school?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?
2. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?
3. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.
4. Why does Kozol think that inner city problems would not be totally solved by better schools?
5. How do the suburban schools in New York compare to the urban schools in New York?
6. Describe PS 79.
7. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?
8. 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?
9. What problems do highly selective schools create in New York? Why do they create these problems?
10. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kozol visits schools where teachers and administrators admit to sending their children to schools other than the one where they teach. What reasons do they give for sending their children to other schools? What is the significance of teachers at poor inner city schools sending their children to suburban public schools or more affluent urban public schools? What theme does this represent? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the urban public school systems in New York and Camden. How are these two urban school systems similar? How are they different? Please use specific examples from the book? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Kozol has his class read Langston Hughes poem, A Dream Deferred. Based on Kozol's interviews, how does this poem apply to the lives of the children Kozol visits in the urban public school systems? Why would their dreams be deferred? What happens to those students whose dreams are deferred? Please use specific examples from the book.
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