compulsory schooling
Required formal learning
Compulsory schooling is education that children are legally required to attend, typically from ages five or six through sixteen or eighteen depending on jurisdiction.
The term often appears in policy discussions about state authority over education: Compulsory schooling laws date to the late nineteenth century.
Critics use the phrase to emphasize the coercive aspect of mandatory attendance.
- truant officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- mandatory educationLegally required school attendance
- literacy ratesMeasure of reading ability
- dropout ratesProportion leaving before completion
- child labor lawsRegulations governing minor employment
kindergarten readiness · age limits · civic engagement · social mobility · teacher unions · parental obligations · public education funding · curriculum standards · seat time · cultural assimilation · free education · community development · right to education · John Dewey · cooperative learning · blended learning
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- education historyeducation reforms, educational reforms, medieval universities, schoolhouse, schoolmaster
- education rightseducation rights, equal access, free education, public education, student rights
- school historycollege history, teacher training, grading systems, diplomas, schoolhouses
- schooling historyhornbooks, schoolmasters, schoolhouses, primers, slates
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
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Self-directed home education
self-directed learning · educational freedom · deschooling · school choice · homeschooling
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Self-directed home education
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Right to direct learning
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