eBook details
- Title: Veterans at the Gates: Exploring the New GI Bill and Its Transformative Possibilities
- Author : Washington University Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 143 KB
Description
INTRODUCTION The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (1) of 2008 ("Act")--popularly referred to as the "GI Bill for the 21st century" (2)--restores veterans' educational benefits to the generous level of the famed post-World War II GI Bill. The original bill has been widely assessed as among the most culturally transformative pieces of legislation of the twentieth century. (3) Nearly eight million veterans--many of whom otherwise would have lacked access to the nation's elite institutions of higher learning--pursued higher education through the GI Bill in the years immediately following World War IL (4) It has been credited with ensuring the successful reintegration of millions of veterans into civil society, (5) creating a new American middle class, (6) and making higher education available to African Americans in significant numbers for the first time. (7) However, despite the clear precedent of veterans' educational benefits profoundly impacting society, the new GI Bill legislation has attracted only modest attention that largely omits discussion of the Act's likely societal impact. (8)