Which of the Following Is Not Evidence That Public Education

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E) New educational theories that stressed decentralized administration, repealed compulsory attendance, and de-emphasized white European conventions such as punctuality.