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Dewalt, Mark W. – 2001
A 15-year study of Amish schools in the United States and Canada found that the number of Amish schools has grown dramatically from 1940 through the present. The Amish provide formal schooling only up to the eighth grade, after which adolescents are engaged in mastering a trade before entering into adulthood. The Amish once supported public…
Descriptors: Amish, Compulsory Education, Court Litigation, Educational History
Download full textFoght, Harold W. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This bulletin is the result of a study made in the Province of Ontario during the fall of 1914. The purpose of the investigation was, more than anything else, to seek some fair basis for comparison of the Schools of Old Ontario--wedged in as it is between New York and Michigan--and the States across the border. Chief attention is to rural life and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Rural Areas, Rural Education
