How did colonial American views on education change with time?
a. American colonists came to embrace education as essential training for citizenship.
b. It became increasingly important to Americans that their best and brightest attend the leading English universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
c. American colonists moved away from the English view that education should be reserved for an aristocratic few.
d. Americans came to see education as unimportant beyond primary school.
e. Southern colonists inspired the other regions in establishing a broad system of public education.
c
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A. led to widespread calls to end capital punishment. B. focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. C. included the practice of solitary confinement. D. decried the racial bias of the judicial system. E. began largely in the West and spread to the East.