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Direct linkDavid, Hanna; Khalil, Mahmood – Gifted and Talented International, 2009
Since Israel's independence in 1948 Arab females were the main beneficiaries of the law of mandatory education. Arab women aged 65+ have, on average, less than one year of formal education. Their granddaughters, aged 18-24, have about 12.5 years of schooling--a number that increases each year. As in many Arab countries, Arab girls in Israel tend…
Descriptors: Females, Compulsory Education, Arabs, Older Adults
Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Durkin, Kevin; Simkin, Zoe; Knox, Emma – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: This investigation reports the results of national educational examinations in secondary schooling for young people who have been participating in the Manchester Language Study. Aims: The emphasis of the study is on furthering understanding of educational outcomes at the end of compulsory education. Methods & Procedures: A total of…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Language Impairments, Outcomes of Education, Adolescents
Tsai, Wehn-Jyuan; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chou, Shin-Yi; Grossman, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on educational outcomes of their children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. We form treatment and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Junior High Schools, Human Capital, Compulsory Education
Download full textCallanan, Meg; Kinsella, Rachel; Graham, Jenny; Turczuk, Ola; Finch, Steven – Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2009
This research was carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) on behalf of the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF). In 2005, the Government's 14-19 White Paper established targets of increasing young people's participation in post-16 education and training to 90% by 2015. In 2008 the Education and Skills Act was…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Compulsory Education, Underachievement, Identification
Operario, Don; Cluver, Lucie; Rees, Helen; MacPhail, Catherine; Pettifor, Audrey – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2008
We examined the association of orphanhood and completion of compulsory school education among young people in South Africa. In South Africa, school attendance is compulsory through grade 9, which should be completed before age 16. However, family and social factors such as orphanhood and poverty can hinder educational attainment. Participants were…
Descriptors: Poverty, Educational Policy, Educational Attainment, Attendance
Parveva, Teodora; De Coster, Isabelle; Noorani, Sogol – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This study produced by the Eurydice network gives a detailed picture of the context and organisation of national tests in 30 European countries and the use made of test results in informing education policy and practice and in guiding the school career of pupils. It presents the diverse choices made by European countries regarding the objectives,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, National Competency Tests, Testing, Students
Howieson, Cathy; Iannelli, Cristina – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
A common concern among policy makers in Europe is the low level of qualifications of some school leavers and the possible consequences of this for their life chances and for countries' economic prosperity. This article considers the impact of young people's low levels of educational attainment on their later life chances, especially on labour…
Descriptors: Females, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Lekholm, Alli Klapp; Cliffordson, Christina – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
The purpose of the study was to use multivariate multilevel techniques to investigate whether it was possible to separate different dimensions in grades that relate to subject-matter achievement and to other factors. Data were derived from The Gothenburg Educational Longitudinal Database (GOLD), and the subjects were 99,070 ninth-grade students…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Family Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment
Pelkonen, Panu – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
It is possible that human capital produces positive externalities to the society indirectly, through non-market channels such as health or crime. Another such channel could be the effect of education on the functioning of democratic decision-making. Measures of the functioning of democracy are bound to be controversial, but one such measure--voter…
Descriptors: Evidence, Municipalities, Human Capital, School Restructuring
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Lleras-Muney, Adriana – 2001
This study examines whether education had a causal impact on health, following synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. Censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. It focuses on compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939, a time when at least 30 states changed their compulsory schooling and child labor laws, as…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Labor, Compulsory Education, Death
Peer reviewedAdams, Scott J. – Education Economics, 2002
Examines the independent effect of education on the health of older adults while controlling for individual and family characteristics. Uses the quarter of birth as an instrument to correct for estimates of biases. Finds higher levels of educational attainment are significantly and positively associated with the better health of older adults.…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics
Schaffner, Julie – International Journal of Educational Development, 2005
Data from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Ethiopia and Nicaragua shed light on two practical questions that arise when turning ''Education for All'' goals of high literacy and universal primary school completion into more specific targets. First, how should we measure literacy? Second, how many years of schooling should be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Literacy Education, Measurement Techniques
Holmlund, Helena – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform extended compulsory education throughout the country, in different municipalities at different points in time. Such…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Compulsory Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Lochner, Lance; Moretti, Enrico – 2001
This paper estimates the effect of education on participation in crime and incarceration, using data from the U.S. Census and changes in state compulsory attendance laws. Increases in compulsory schooling ages are not correlated with increases in state resources devoted to fighting crime. Research suggests that additional years of secondary…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compulsory Education, Crime, Crime Prevention
