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Gatto, John Taylor – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1997
Suggests that modern schooling was founded on elitist principles and has resulted in making people dumber, weakening families, replacing religion, lowering incomes, reproducing the class structure by dividing children into classes that correlate closely with family income, and concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a small fraction of the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Conformity, Educational Malpractice, Educational Principles
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Ponomarchuk, V. A.; Tolstykh, A. V. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Reports on a study of Russian parental attitudes regarding appropriate age of initial school attendance and decisions regarding secondary education. Finds that 80% of parents of young children support kindergarten education. Includes 14 tables of data from the study. (CFR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Gatto, John Taylor – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1995
Public schooling fails by educating students to become dependent thinkers; by providing irrelevant curricula; and by weakening social institutions such as family, community, and religion. On the other hand, public libraries give students the freedom to choose what they want to read, encourage critical thinking, and be nonjudgmental of students.…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Conformity, Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy
Eichelbaum de Babini, Ana Maria – Prospects, 1991
States that the emerging systems of education throughout the world since 1980 provide a fertile ground for research. Reviews educational systems and focuses on topics such as compulsory education, growth in enrollments, women in education, and vocational education. Suggests that there is a convergence of structures and practices in much of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Compulsory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
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Wilson, Duncan – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
The Dakar Framework for Action represents the most important international political commitment towards promoting Education for All. The Framework contains two gender-based goals. In Article 7 (ii) the participants commit themselves to eliminating "gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005". The second commitment is to achieve…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Rights, Gender Issues, Civil Rights
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Jialing, Han – Chinese Education and Society, 2004
This article presents the report of a survey conducted to study the following four issues: (1) how the marketization of education for migrant children came about; (2) the basic school situation, including distribution, operators, conditions, curricula, and general characteristics; (3) teachers and teaching at the schools, including teaching…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Compulsory Education, Migrant Education, School Surveys
Leue, Mary M., Ed.; And Others – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1995
The four issues of "Skole" published in 1995 include articles examining alternatives to public education and the value of free schools. Free schools offer an unstructured curriculum in which comparisons between students are eliminated and students are empowered to be responsible for their learning. Proponents of this approach to…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childrens Writing, Compulsory Education, Conformity
Deckard, Steve – 1986
To assist parents, educators, and law-makers, this guide presents each state's Compulsory Education Law for Home Schooling situations. Compilation of facts and laws derives from materials collected from the chief state school officer or designated authority. Because many states are updating laws and requirements, the manual is intended as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compliance (Legal), Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1986
The papers of this proceedings are presented in 5 parts. In part 1, "Education in Nineteenth Century Europe," the two papers describe the inception of the Ragged School Union in England and the educational opportunities in Naples. The titles are: "The Ragged Schools of Victorian England and Their Contribution to Child…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Children, Compulsory Education, Consolidated Schools
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Opper, Susan – European Journal of Education, 1986
Proposed reform of Swedish teacher education is a mixture of support for educational excellence, for more comprehensive compulsory school teacher education, and for equal access to pre-service and inservice teacher education facilities, but overemphasis on geographical accessibility threatens the program's comprehensiveness. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compulsory Education, Curriculum Development, Decentralization
Tilton, Wendy A. – Online Submission, 2004
Mandatory real estate education has been intensely debated for many years. New Jersey is the only state in the nation that does not require licensed real estate agents to attend an ongoing educational event after securing a license to practice. A bill was proposed to the legislature to mandate real estate education in June of 2001. (It was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Control Groups, Compulsory Education, Real Estate
Tomich, Vera – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Yugoslavia, in its postwar reconstruction, has devoted considerable effort to educational development, especially at the secondary school level. The new General Law on Education of 1958 introduced major reforms and inaugurated a new public school system for the diverse population of the country. The purpose of this study is to present a factual…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Secondary Schools, Technical Assistance, Vocational Schools
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DeMitchell, Todd A. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1997
Conflicts between parents' wishes and school authorities' decisions have historically occurred in several areas, including compulsory education, special education, and curriculum. Reviews legal precedents for parental rights, explores current court cases involving parent/school authority conflicts, and critiques recent state legislation concerning…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Condoms, Court Litigation, Curriculum
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Post, David – Sociology of Education, 1994
Reviews recent changes in Hong Kong's policy to extend free and compulsory education to the first three years of secondary schooling. Examines the consequences of this expansion and finds that the changes in public policy had a substantial impact on the ability of young people, especially girls, to go to secondary school, regardless of income.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Policy, Females
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Education for All (an international movement of governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media) set objectives in Jomtien (1990) and reaffirmed in Dakar (2000) that, among other things, work towards all children having access to free, compulsory, good quality primary education by 2015. School dropout may hinder the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Holding Power, Elementary Education, Illiteracy
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