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From the Ted Talk by Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is the hidden underside to our historic eerxpinmet in punishment: young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized. Not just in the streets, but in their homes, at school and at work.

I got interested in this other path to adhtoluod when I was myself a college student attending the University of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. Penn sits within a historic African-American neighborhood. So you've got these two pelaalrl journeys going on simultaneously: the kids attending this elite, pirvtae university, and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood, some of whom are making it to cllogee, and many of whom are being shipped to prison.

Open Cloze


This is the hidden underside to our historic __________ in punishment: young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized. Not just in the streets, but in their homes, at school and at work.

I got interested in this other path to _________ when I was myself a college student attending the University of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. Penn sits within a historic African-American neighborhood. So you've got these two ________ journeys going on simultaneously: the kids attending this elite, _______ university, and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood, some of whom are making it to _______, and many of whom are being shipped to prison.

Solution


  1. private
  2. parallel
  3. college
  4. adulthood
  5. experiment

Original Text


This is the hidden underside to our historic experiment in punishment: young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized. Not just in the streets, but in their homes, at school and at work.

I got interested in this other path to adulthood when I was myself a college student attending the University of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. Penn sits within a historic African-American neighborhood. So you've got these two parallel journeys going on simultaneously: the kids attending this elite, private university, and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood, some of whom are making it to college, and many of whom are being shipped to prison.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
young people 15
criminal justice 6
high school 5
justice system 5
assault case 4
poor kids 3
court fees 3
high incarceration 3
civil rights 3
united states 2
incarceration rate 2
senior thesis 2
chase people 2
aggravated assault 2
stolen property 2
schoolyard fight 2
historically high 2
incarceration rates 2
crime rate 2
black young 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
criminal justice system 5
historically high incarceration 2
high incarceration rates 2

Important Words


  1. adjacent
  2. adulthood
  3. attending
  4. college
  5. early
  6. elite
  7. experiment
  8. hidden
  9. historic
  10. homes
  11. interested
  12. journeys
  13. kids
  14. making
  15. moment
  16. neighborhood
  17. parallel
  18. path
  19. penn
  20. pennsylvania
  21. people
  22. prison
  23. private
  24. school
  25. searched
  26. seized
  27. shipped
  28. sits
  29. stopped
  30. streets
  31. student
  32. underside
  33. university
  34. work
  35. worried
  36. young