The drive to expand guaranteed free education may benefit middle-class families, who often find themselves without the resources to pay for pre-K or college, writes GeraldFSeib
A century ago, a grass-roots drive revolutionized public education for American children. The high-school movement took hold in communities across the land, spreading the idea that the basic education that society provided needed to run from first grade through four full years of high school.
Modernizing workplaces demanded workers with a high-school education, so cities, towns and states decided to provide them. High schools proliferated. The number of students enrolled in public high schools rose almost ninefold in the first...
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