Sentences with phrase «compulsory schooling ends»

During the 1987 - 88 school year, the mandatory age for starting school was lowered from 7 to 6; compulsory schooling ends with grade 8.

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Though compulsory chapel was indeed coming to an end in state institutions and some states banned the teaching of theology in their schools, compensatory efforts to support voluntary religion developed elsewhere.

GCSE examinations are taken by most pupils at the end of compulsory school education (year 11) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The researchers found that the twin whose mothers reported having higher cultural capital at age 12 had significantly higher marks on their end of compulsory school exams at age 15/16.

They found that «an increase in the share of independent - school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long - run educational outcomes.»

With lineage in 19th - century Prussia, Horace Mann and various education reformers were successful in molding a compulsory school system — forcing children to kowtow to an irrational authority for years on end and learn via obedience and coercion, antithetical to human development.

This means that, in most participating countries, PISA tested students nearing the end of compulsory schooling.

PISA measures how well 15 - year - olds, who are nearing the end of their compulsory schooling in most participating educational systems, are prepared to use the knowledge and skills in particular areas to meet real - life opportunities and challenges.

However, it won't become compulsory for schools until 2019 - 20, when all pupils will be expected to sit the test at the end of year 4, in June 2020.

A 1921 high school handbook for New York City public schools teacher states: «Compulsory service retirement takes place at the age of 70, or at the end of the term in which the age of 70 is attained.»

The PISA test is administered every three years around the world to measure what 15 - year - old students know in math, reading and science before the end of compulsory schooling.

A guide to the varied pattern of tests around the UK in the school years prior to the public exams (such as GCSEs) which most sit at the end of compulsory education.

For instance, Chile has both municipal and private subsidized schools financed through vouchers.8 In South Korea, government funding of private schools has been present since the end of the Korean War.9 The first nine years of education are compulsory schooling «free» of charge, and the finance of private schools is almost entirely dependent upon the government.10 Recently, this has also been extended in part to private high schools.11

Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory.

In Sweden, children begin compulsory school at age 7 in Grade 1 and end at age 16 in Grade 9.

Compulsory school age ends on the last Friday of June in the academic year in which they become 16.

Profile of Students at the End of Compulsory Schooling.

(I) Factors related to socioeconomic status: mother's (< 25, 25 — 29, 30 — 34, 35 +) and father's (< 30, 30 — 34, 35 +) age in years at birth of child; mother's and father's education at 9 months (National Vocational Qualification equivalent level 4 — 5 = university degree or equivalent, 3 = A levels or equivalent, 2 = grade C or higher in at least 4 General Certificate of Secondary Education qualifications at the end of compulsory schooling at age 16, 0 — 1 = less than this); occupational socioeconomic status at exposure, based on the last - known job of father or mother, whichever was higher (3 - class National Statistics Socio - economic Classification 1 = managerial / administrative / professional, 2 = intermediate, 3 = routine / manual); duration of breast - feeding (never, < 4 months, 4 + months); number of siblings of child in household at 9 months (none, 1, 2 +).