Pop Quiz for Cathy Black

Pop Quiz for Cathy Black:

(Turn off your Blackberry; no help from Deputy Chancellors)

1. Who was Paul Robeson?

2. After your experience on the Coca-Cola Board of Directors, can you tell us what death squads do?

3. Name two people you know personally whose children go to public school.

4. What was the Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education?

5. Recent studies show that the following raise student test scores:
1. closing schools
2. small schools
3. charter schools
4. tying teachers’ pay to students test scores
5. all of the above
6. none of the above

6. What is the graduation rate of Jamaica High School students compared to the city average?

7. Where is The Bronx?

8. How much did IBM pay Joel Klein to give them the Paul Robeson HS building?

9. I took the job as school chancellor because of
1. The need for increased birth control
2. I was faced with Sophie’s Choice
3. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it
4. All my friends on the cocktail circuit were starting charter schools, so I decided to one-up them

10.  Excluding blacks and Jews from the country club where you rode horses

             was legal under:

a.      The Dred Scott decision

b.      Numerus Clausus of German universities adopted by Harvard and Columbia in the 1920s

c.      A corollary of the “freedom of conscience” doctrine espoused by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas

d.      Who cares? My country club buddies make the law

Easy extra credit question:  How many players are there on a polo team?