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By 1900, 34 states had compulsory schooling laws; four were in the South. Thirty states with compulsory schooling laws required attendance until age 14 (or higher). [111] As a result, by 1910, 72 percent of American children attended school. Half the nation's children attended one-room schools.
Compulsory education starts with one mandatory year of pre-primary (preschool) education. [114] Czech Republic: 5: 15: Compulsory education requires one year spent in pre-school and nine years spent in school. Beginning age is negotiable ± 1 year. Denmark: 6: 16 Egypt: 6: 14 England and Wales: 4 [115] 16 [116]
The movement gained some legislative attention when a 1920 Michigan referendum for compulsory public education received 40% of the vote. [3] In 1922, Oregon passed a similar referendum. Eventually this law was challenged and unanimously struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. [4]
This is a list of acts enacted by the United States Congress pertaining to education in the United States. Many laws related to education are codified under Title 20 of the United States Code. This list does not include resolutions designating a specific day, week, or month in honor of an educational goal.
All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools. The Mayflower Pilgrims made a law in Plymouth Colony that each family was responsible to teach their children how to read and write, for the express purpose of reading the Bible. In 1642, the Massachusetts Bay Colony made education compulsory, and other New England colonies followed.
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
The law was one of a series of legislative acts directed at public education in the colony. The first Massachusetts School Law of 1642 broke with English tradition by transferring educational supervision from the clergy to the selectmen of the colony, empowering them to assess the education of children "to read & understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country."