Which of the Following Is Not Evidence That Public Education

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not evidence that public education in the late-nineteenth-century United States had become entangled in ethnic and class differences?

• A) The proliferation of private and parochial schools
• B) The controversy over compulsory education
• C) The debates over classroom decorum
• D) The efforts to wrest control of schools from neighborhood leaders
• E) New educational theories that stressed decentralized administration, repealed compulsory attendance, and de-emphasized white European conventions such as punctuality.

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