| Public Education as Welfare
Katz, Michael B.
Dissent, Summer 2010, v57, #3,
pp52-57
"Welfare is the most despised public institution in America. Public education is the most iconic. To associate them with each other will strike most Americans as bizarre, even offensive. The link would be less surprising to nineteenthcentury reformers for whom crime, poverty, and ignorance formed an unholy trinity against which they struggled. Nor would it raise British eyebrows. Ignorance was one of the "five giants" to be slain by the new welfare state proposed in the famous Beveridge Report. National health insurance, the cornerstone of the British welfare state, and the 1944 Education Act, which introduced the first national system of secondary education to Britain, were passed by Parliament only two years apart. Yet, in the United States, only a few students of welfare and education have even suggested that the two might stand together. Why this mutual neglect? And how does public education fit into the architecture of the U.S. welfare state?"
Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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C21/03-10. Posted August 25, 2010
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