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Which colonial region had public education that took place within the church so that every child could read the Bible?

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Colonial Massachusetts was among the very first places in the world to make the education of young people a public responsibility.

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The English Puritans who settled Boston in 1630 believed that children's welfare on earth and in the afterlife depended in large part on their ability to read.

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