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Does Raising the State Compulsory School Attendance Age Achieve the Intended Outcomes? REL 2014-005
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Mackey, Philip E.; Duncan, Teresa G. – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2013
Maryland recently raised its compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18 in two stages: from 16 to 17 at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year and from 17 to 18 at the beginning of the 2016-17 school year (Maryland Senate Bill 362, 2012). The Maryland State Department of Education, a member of Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic's…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Dropouts
Does Raising the State Compulsory School Attendance Age Achieve the Intended Outcomes? Summary. REL 2014-005
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Philip E. Mackey; Teresa G. Duncan – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2013
Maryland raised its compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18 in two stages: from 16 to 17 at the beginning of the 2014/15 school year and from 17 to 18 at the beginning of the 2016/17 school year (Maryland Senate Bill 362, 2012). The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) sought technical assistance from the Regional Educational…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Dropouts
The School Situation for Students with a High Level of Absenteeism in Compulsory School: Is There a Pattern in Documented Support?
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Strand, Anne-Sofie M.; Granlund, Mats – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This paper is a retrospective descriptive content analysis of all identified school documents for 90 ninth-grade students with a history of truancy, collected from two Swedish compulsory schools. The study investigates individual, school, and psychosocial factors in the documents and three analyses are presented: (1) a general analysis of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compulsory Education, Truancy, Learning Problems
An Analysis of Florida's School Districts' Attendance Policies and their Relationship to High School Attendance Rates
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Reardon, Ryan Turner – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this non-experimental correlational study was to determine the relationship between the type of attendance policies in the high schools of the 67 Florida school districts, the size of the school district (number of high school students), the socioeconomic status SES) of the school district, and the average daily attendance rate of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Compulsory Education, School Size, Average Daily Attendance
School Absenteeism and the Implementation of Truancy-Related Penalty Notices
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Zhang, Ming – Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal for Pastoral Care & Personal-Social Education, 2007
This paper derives from the author's recent research into disadvantaged children's access to compulsory education in England. Examining the national attendance strategies and practice, the author interrogates the current trend towards a more punitive approach to addressing the problem of school absenteeism while debating the issue of irresponsible…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Truancy, Compulsory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1882-'83
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Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1884
In this thirteenth annual report, the Commissioner of Education discusses the Bureau of Education's work, with a list of its publications from the year. The Commissioner also presents summary data of institutions, instructors, and students; school age, population, enrolment, and attendance; legal school ages in the United States; teachers employed…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Publications, Teachers, Students