Compulsory School Attendance And Minimum Educational Requirements In The United States

This circular supersedes Circular No. 278, September, 1950, by Ward W. Keesecker and Alfred C. Allen. The circular is designed to answer briefly the numerous and constant inquiries which come to the Office of Education relating to compulsory education in the United States. It also indicates some important trends in compulsory school attendance laws during recent years. For more detailed provisions of State compulsory school attendance laws the reader is referred to the texts of the laws of the particular States in which they may be interested.

A biography of the opera and concert singer who, among other achievements, was the first black soloist to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1955.

Excerpt from Compulsory School Attendance: Compulsory Attendance Laws in the United States; Compulsory Attendance in Foreign Countries; Compulsory Education in Germany; The Need of Compulsory Education in the South For these reasons I recommend. That the accompanying manu script, prepared by W. H. Hand, professor of secondary education inthe University of South Carolina, and members of this bureau, be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This single volume text describes the origin of compulsory education in America. Each state's attendance laws are included.