The author of your textbook traces the roots of America's most recent move toward "back-to-basics and testing, testing, testing" to

a. the essentialist academic critics of the 1950s
b. the media discovery in the mid-1970s of the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores
c. the presidential election campaign of 1972 with its focus on the quality of public education
d. No Child Left Behind, which reversed trends that had been unfavorable to basics and testing


B

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