To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government
Steven Conn (ed.)
Published:
2012
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9780190254537
Print ISBN:
9780199858538
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To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government
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Jonathan Zimmerman
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Abstract
This chapter discusses how the federal government has always been involved in education since the founding of the nation. From its inception, America's new national government subsidized education by granting land for it. Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which passed the same year that the Constitution was ratified, federal territories were required to set aside one-sixteenth of every township to support public schools. In the 1903s, the New Deal marked the first real surge of direct federal engagement in education. When local districts could no longer support their schools due to the greatest economic crisis in national history, the New Deal kept schools afloat and introduced long-lasting educational innovations such as public nursery schools. In 2002, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became the most expansive federal educational measure in American history.
Keywords: education policy, student loans, federal subsidies, federal government, American education, land grants, New Deal, No Child Left Behind
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US History since 1945
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