Which of the following people had a profound effect on American education?

Langston Hughes

Bessie Smith

John Dewey

Alfred Palmer

Verified Answer :

It was mainly "John Dewey" who  had a profound effect on American education, since his main goal was to reform the educational system to make it more effective and inclusive. 

The correct answer is "John Dewey". John Dewey was an educational reformer whose ideas changed the way education was given in his era. He was a major voice of progressive education and adopted pragmatism as a phylosophy to be implemented in schools. Pragmatism considered that words and thought are tools for changing ideas and causing actions instead of being merely instruments of analysis.