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"Compulsory School Attendance: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy"
Raising the age for compulsory schooling to 18, as President Barack Obama proposed in his 2012 State of the Union address, does not necessarily increase the number of students who eventually graduate from high school with a diploma, an
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