The question asks, "Which one of the following statements about schooling in the United States during the mid-1940s can be inferred from the passage?"
(B) says, "The teachers in white schools had more time to cover material during a school year than did teachers in black schools."
We know that education is mentioned quite a bit in the second and third paragraphs of the passage, but the author of the passage only discusses the mid-1940s in line 30 ("Although the mid-1940s term length at black schools was approaching that in white schools, the rapid growth in another important measure of school quality, school expenditures, may be explained by increases in teachers' salaries"). Here, the term "approaching" denotes that during the mid-1940s, highly black schools didn't have as much time during the school day as did white schools, but they were approaching time parody with the white schools. In looking at (B) it is strongly supported by the text in lines 30-35. Teachers had more time to cover material in white schools than they did in black schools. (B) is the correct answer choice.
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RaviApril 30, 2019
@BradG, apologies for the typo. It's "time parity," not "time parody."
