EDUC 605 - Murillo

Mid-term Examination

In no more than two or three (2 or 3) paragraphs each, respond to any 4 of the 6 questions below on the book Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School by Michelle Fine.
Open Book – Open Note!!!

Label each question # to which you are responding, worth 5 points each. Though of course I advise you to prepare for this exam ahead of time, the exam is to be taken in-class during week 6.

1) Describe and Discuss the EMERGENT PARADOX (educational access vs educational outcomes). Begin by describing the demographic makeup of CHS (students, administrators, teachers), and how a H.S. diploma substantially yields different consequences by class, race/ethnicity, & gender.

2) Describe and Discuss the policies, practices & ideologies of SILENCING and NOT NAMING. Who does Silencing protect? What are the practices by which they are institutionalized? How does this undermine a project of educational empowerment?

3) Describe and Discuss the policies, practices & ideologies of DISCHARGE and CHOICE. Who do they protect? What are the practices by which Discharge is institutionalized? How does this undermine a project of educational empowerment?

4) Describe and Discuss PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT and CONTACT at CHS. What does this mean for teachers, administrators, students, and parents? Further Describe and Discuss how the concept of MOTHER is framed by teachers, administrators, students, and parents.

5) Describe and Discuss the three IDEOLOGICAL FETISHES that surround the problem of high dropout rates, with respect to how they order the experiences, beliefs, rituals, and behaviors in schools.

6) Describe and Discuss the entrenched behaviors and resource allocations that constituted MATERIAL FETISHES, with respect to CRITIQUE and POWER ASYMMETRIES, as they self-generate and self-produce within schools.