In many cultures, investing in a girl's education seems like a poor investment, because ________.
A) girls are needed to support their parents in old age
B) men are more valued
C) religious superstition
D) she marries into another family
Question 2
The Sunday School movement began because ________.
A) children needed religious education in addition to the formal education provided by public schools
B) children interrupted the religious observances of parents and needed to be occupied
C) it was the only day available to educate children who worked
D) formal education was seen as indoctrinating youngsters with secular ideas and the church needed to counteract those ideas
The recent mass upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria gave political scientists a cha
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Pablo Picasso, Girl before a Mirror.
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Share of Hours Worked by Education Level, 1940–2008