Schools of the 1600s that were typically run for a fee by educated widows or housewives in their own homes, providing initial academic instruction for boys, particularly those from the middle and upper classes, were known as which of the following?

a. Normal schools
b. Latin Grammar Schools
c. Vernacular Schools
d. Dame schools


ANS: D

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