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Direct linkHern, Matt – Education Canada, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the impact of compulsory state schooling in North America. The author stresses that schools are not making kids smarter, more capable or more skilled. The basic aspects of everyday school life have emerged and continue to evolve not as a response to the needs of students, but as driven by institutional needs.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Download full textMedel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2008
Many European governments associate improving literacy with providing development assistance to regions like Africa and Asia from which the majority of the world's 774 million illiterates come. As school attendance is compulsory in the region, it is assumed that the Education for All (EFA) goals have been achieved and literacy is therefore not…
Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Policy, Social Integration, Adult Education
