I'm doing an exit project on the event of when school was made mandatory. I am in the eighth grade, and i would like to know when school was made mandatory. Can someone also please provide me an article or some information on when school was made mandatory? Please provide links
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Hey Rakib, By 1900, 31 states required children to attend school from the ages of 8- to 14-years-old. As a result, by 1910, 72 percent of American children attended school. Half the nation's children attended one-room schools. In 1918, every state required students to complete elementary school. Lessons consisted of students reading aloud from their texts such as the McGuffey Readers, and placed emphasis on rote memorization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_the_United_States -- This site, has a table that lists when each state enacted their compulsory schooling law: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112617.html Here's a college level history article that goes into great depth about the history of compulsory education in the US: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/32/d2/1b.pdf Good luck! I hope this helps! :)
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