compulsory education
Required youth learning
Compulsory education is the legal requirement that children attend school for a specified period, typically from around age five or six through the mid-teens.
The exact ages vary by jurisdiction.
Compulsory education laws emerged in the nineteenth century.
Parents who fail to ensure their children's attendance may face legal consequences.
- truancy lawsStatutes mandating school presence
- primary schoolEarly childhood education institution
- absenteeismHabitual failure to attend
- schoolPlace of instruction
- literacy ratesMeasure of reading ability
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- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- educationschool, schools, teachers, students, learning
- schoolingelementary school, school, middle school, high school, primary schools
- elementary education Europeprimary school, literacy, numeracy, reading, writing
- School Administrationprincipals, vice principal, school boards, assistant principal, headmaster
- British educationgrammar schools, comprehensive schools, state schools, private schools, boarding schools
compulsory educationunschooling
Self-directed home education
deschooling · homeschooling · autodidacticism · self-education · informal education
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