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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 grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?
(a) Kindergarten- 2nd grade.
(b) Kindergarten and 1st grade.
(c) 11th and 12th grade.
(d) 2-5 grades.

2. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?
(a) Supportive.
(b) Close-minded.
(c) Simple-minded.
(d) Open-minded.

3. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) 33,746,000
(b) 333,000,000
(c) 333,746,000
(d) 3,746,000

4. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?
(a) Project-based learning.
(b) Homework.
(c) Classroom practice work.
(d) Standardized testing.

5. What does Ayers suggest that teachers have to be if they do not want to lose their capacity for renewal and growth?
(a) Close-minded.
(b) Open-minded.
(c) Sensitive.
(d) Self-critical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?

2. What type of school grew out of the civil rights struggle?

3. What type of questions make up the majority of the standardized test?

4. In Chapter 7, "Mystery of Teaching," who told a remarkable story of learning to read as a subversive activity?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ayers say greatness in teaching requires?

2. What were Ayers's feelings during the Illinois Teachers Basic Skills Test?

3. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what did the second grade newsletter contain?

4. According to Ayers, what are good schools?

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

6. According to Ayers, what does culture include?

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

8. In Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum," what did Sarah's mother discuss?

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

10. Based on Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," describe why Zayd's project, a project focused on values, was an important hopeful approach to teaching.

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