This paper considered different conceptions of compulsory education as embodied in the education laws of different countries. An analytical tool was developed for the comparison of these laws in order to learn the implications of the obligation they impose and the measures required for the discharge of the legal obligation. (Author/RK)

The paper, written by a senior nursing student, examines the need for continuing education and discusses the advantages and disadvantages for the nursing profession of its implementation on a mandatory or voluntary basis. (MS)

A model is presented for the effects of compulsory high school attendance and the relationship between the percent completing high school and the benefits associated with high school completion. Some of the characteristics of this nation's educational system are discussed, and a normative principle is stated that those having a greater share of…

Absenteeism has personal as well as institutional causes. It is increasingly impossible for schools to function as custodians of their student, given changing social attitudes toward both youth and authority. Therefore, schools must respond to students' needs by curricular revision, for example, in order to cut down on absenteeism. Hazell…

British educators have voiced concern over Section 10 of the Education Act of 1976, which emphasizes education of the handicapped in ordinary British schools. (Author)

Results of a survey concerning the state of kindergarten program offerings in the United States are discussed in terms of the similarities, differences, purposes and practices in the programs. A summary table of survey data is provided. (BB)

Examines various issues related to the growing number of young people who are continuing in education and training after the statutory school-leaving age. Also explores explanations for this trend (including rising aspirations and high youth unemployment) as well as major social and educational implications. (JN)

Discussion of compulsory school attendance in United States focuses on a national exodus from public schools into self-education or other alternative education by the 5 percent of the nation's children classified as gifted. Nurturing of the innovative mind and entrepreneurial daring by the public library movement is addressed. Six references are…

It is argued that gender-related inequalities in education and elsewhere are embedded in ideology about the family, which is at least partially reproduced through the educational system. Western Australian educational reform from 1900-1929 is described from this perspective and in the context of the formal educational system of the time. (MSE)

This writer takes issue with the viewpoints on compulsory education expressed in the "Point-Counterpoint" section of the September 1975 issue of the NASSP Bulletin. He emphasizes the difference between the state's right to mandate a certain level of intellectual development for all its citizens, versus its current practice of mandating a minimum…

This paper discusses the education in Belize (formerly known as British Honduras) during the colonial era and the lasting impact of the educational foundation of the country. The paper examines the influence the British colonial educational system continues to have in Belize, 20 years after independence. It gives an overview of the history of…

Nearly a score of years ago a group of men and women, vitally interested in carrying into effect some plan by means of which people in the Old Dominion would realize the necessity for a wider democracy in education, met in Richmond, Virginia. Then it was that the germ of the Cooperative Education Association came into existence, and the following…

The primary areas in which Broward County, Florida visiting teachers (one for about 6000 children) serve the schools are student welfare and attendance. Student welfare problems usually fall into one or more of these categories; financial, emotional, scholastic, health. Student attendance problems fall into two categories: truancy and…

Projects in Englewood (NJ) are designed to help students examine the impact of society on their feelings, attitudes, and behaviors; to understand themselves and their society; and to instill in them their right to ask questions and gain the knowledge needed to make responsible life decisions. (PN)

A historical review of antidemocratic social thinking since 1885 and its educational consequences: compulsory education managed by a central bureaucracy rather than by individuals in local communities, and a gradual "narrowing" of the definition of democracy through state-regulated mind control by schools. (SAS)