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Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The formulation of effective compulsory attendance laws has been one of the problems confronting legislators and school officials for the past 70 years. The most marked advance in enacting such laws has been made since 1890. Prior to that date only 27 States and the District of Columbia had compulsory laws, and many of these were inoperative. Now…
Descriptors: Attendance, Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation
Keesecker, Ward W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
In the United States, education is not only free and public, but it is compulsory in all continental United States and in its principal outlying parts. The aim in this study is to present in a summary manner what appear to be the most interesting legislative features of compulsory education systems in the various States: (1) When did the States…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Neglect, Compulsory Education, State Departments of Education
Deffenbaugh, Walter S.; Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
This study has been prepared to help answer questions frequently asked regarding certain features of the compulsory school attendance laws in the several States, as compulsory school ages, exemptions provided, amount of attendance required, qualifications of attendance officers, State supervision of attendance enforcement, and other provisions for…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, School Attendance Legislation, Compulsory Education
