The Massachusetts Board of Education's full-time paid secretary Horace Mann spent his state government career advocating for all of the following EXCEPT
A) tighter state standards for education in the public schools.
B) more money for schools and teacher salaries from increased taxes.
C) state systems of education and better-educated teachers.
D) private college-sponsored teacher preparation schools called "normal schools" that offered privately funded preparation to any young woman or man who wanted to be a teacher.
Answer: D
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A) violent crime B) poor street lighting C) insufficient public transportation D) inadequate sanitation
What happened to the Ostrogothic kingdom after the death of Theodoric?
a. It prospered under very able rulers. b. It was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture. c. It allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths. d. It dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years. e. It converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.
Saint Augustine argued that people needed the grace of God through the authority of the church because
a. Only the church could provide legitimate sacraments. b. People were tainted by original sin from Adam and Eve. c. People were regularly sinful by nature and needed constant reinforcement. d. Most people were illiterate and could not read the Bible themselves. e. People must be forcibly converted.
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