During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. ███
Intro topic ·Education of French women during 1800s
Impact of the two proposals ·Influenced educational reform in 1880s
Egalitarian reforms passed in 1880s used the earlier proposals to demonstrate that the new laws were rooted in tradition.
Passage Style
Single position
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Question Type
Implied
The legislators who passed new educational laws in the 1880s are described at the end of the passage: “French legislators recalled the earlier proposals in their justification of new laws that founded public secondary schools for women, abolished fees for education, and established compulsory attendance for all students. In order to pass these reforms, the government needed to demonstrate that its new standards were rooted in a long philosophical, political, and pedagogical tradition. Various of the resulting institutions also made claim to revolutionary origin, as doing so allowed them to appropriate the legitimacy conferred by tradition and historical continuity.”
The author doesn’t indicate that these legislators wanted to remove aspects of education from the public school curriculum.
b
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There’s no evidence these legislators were unaware of the difficulties faced by earlier legislators. The 1880s legislators recalled the earlier proposals that weren’t successful, so there’s a reasonable chance they actually were aware of the difficulties in getting the earlier legislation passed.
Supported, because we know they abolished fees for education. This is evidence they cared about improving access to education among the lower economic classes.
d
more open to █████████ ██████████ ████ ████ ███ ███████████ ███ ██████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███ ██████
Not supported, because the author never compares the 1880 legislators’ willingness to compromise to the earlier legislators’. Although the 1880s legislators were able to get legislation passed, the author never suggests that this was in part a result of political compromise.
There’s no evidence the 1880s legislators were more open to giving religious authorities a role in education. The author doesn’t say anything about the 1880s legislators and their relationship to or opinion about religion.
Difficulty
77% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%134
148
75%162
Analysis
Implied
Law
Single position
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Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
5%
162
b
2%
157
c
77%
165
d
14%
160
e
2%
158
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