Understanding the Political Economy of the Origins of the Contemporary

Understanding the political economy of the origins of the contemporary school reform movement in America requires recognition of several factors. Which of the following is one such factor?

A) The sources of the nation's economic problems resided primarily in economic and political policies, not in schooling policies.
B) Insofar as business is intervening to help fund advanced learning, the "high-tech" rationale for school improvement cannot justify concentration of resources only in a relatively small minority of skilled students.
C) Most new jobs require advanced understanding of math, science, and technology.
D) The establishment of new standards of course taking in the 1980s with the Nation at Risk significantly reduced dropout rates and increased college attainment of the student cohort affected by these changes.