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1
During the Progressive Era, the control of schools shifted from centralized school boards to local neighborhood control.
A)True
B)False
2
American leaders considered immigrants a significant obstacle to the social order and turned to schools for solutions.
A)True
B)False
3
Because women did not work in the public sphere, scientific management had no impact on women or the type of work that they performed.
A)True
B)False
4
The populist movement was strongly opposed to industrialism.
A)True
B)False
5
Membership in the socialist movement increased immediately after World War I.
A)True
B)False
6
John Dewey believed that the biggest social problem of the time was the fact that social issues such as urbanization, industrialization, and immigration were being solved by nondemocratic, and even authoritarian, methods.
A)True
B)False
7
Modern liberals believed that the best way to achieve reason was through the scientific method and expert knowledge.
A)True
B)False
8
After different methods were experimented with, it was Dewey's developmental-democracy variety of progressive education that finally took root in America during the Progressive era.
A)True
B)False
9
Charles Eliot believed that American society was split into four unchanging classes, and that American schools should recognize those classes and educate students according to their "evident and probable destinies."
A)True
B)False
10
In the Progressive Era, students who received vocational training did not take any academic courses.
A)True
B)False





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