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Education Program

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Compulsory Education: News Articles

Jefferson on Education (July 2004)
Education Week
“In The Failures of Integration, and in her recent Education Week Commentary based on that book ("The American Dilemma Continues," May 19, 2004), Sheryll Cashin writes that Brown v. Board of Education "reimagined Thomas Jefferson’s vision of common schools: the idea that there should be at least one institution in American society that provides a common experience of citizenship and equal opportunity ... on a free and open basis to all."

Changing the Compulsory School Age (February 2003)
Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals
“The Michigan Legislature is considering changing a “right of passage” enjoyed by several generations of Michigan’s children. The freedom to leave formal schooling at age 16. With the proposal, the age of compulsory education would be raised from 16 years of age to 18. The reasons for such a change are compelling. The future of a non-high school graduate is dismal. This change is a troubling notion to those responsible to enforce this public policy, but our times compel a change in an antiquated law.

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