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1. Introduction The modern American welfare state was created with a strong sense of urgency for improving living conditions of the poor in reaction to the economic realities of the Great Depression. Under President Franklin Roosevelt, from 1933-1939 the architects of the New Deal created an assortment of programs cobbled together to form an economic safety net (the floor) for Americans.
Before cracking the cover of Frederick M. Hess?s Letters to a Young Education Reformer, you might instinctively ask yourself, ?Is this book for me? Am I an education reformer?? For Hess, education reform means systemic change. It is ?mostly a matter of opening up outdated systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better educate every child? (p. 9).
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