Education reformers sought to better prepare students for the increasingly competitive economy by
A) shifting the burden of the cost of education from parents to the state.
B) extending the school term to ten months a year and compelling regular, on-time attendance.
C) dividing students into grades based on age and achievement.
D) standardizing textbooks.
E) All of these choices
Question 2
The Specie Circular required
A) Americans to use greenbacks instead of silver.
B) the federal government to issue equal amounts of soft and hard money.
C) the American dollar to be backed by gold.
D) that only specie be used to purchase public lands.
E) the government to back its paper money with an equal value of public lands.