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The students themselves can also be imprisoned for truancy from age 14 to 18, because the criminal responsibility age is 14 in Germany. [13] The students older than 18 cannot be held criminally liable for truancy. [12] The parents of a child absent from school without a legitimate excuse are notified by the school.
During the competitive presidential race of 2000, 36 percent of youth turned out to vote and in 2004, the "banner year in the history of youth voting," 47 percent of the American youth voted. [10] In the Democratic primaries for the 2008 U.S. presidential election , the number of youth voters tripled and even quadrupled in some states compared ...
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]
The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%. [1]
With summer coming to an end and fall around the corner, students and teachers are diving into the upcoming school year. While students are busy getting into a back-to-school routine, teachers and ...
More than half of U.S. students go to "racially concentrated" schools. [13] Twenty percent of U.S. students are enrolled in districts that are poor and nonwhite, but only 5 percent live in poor white districts. [14] The number of school districts in the United States has been increasing, reflecting a growing race and social class divide.
Students score lower on standardised maths tests at the end of the summer, as compared to their own performance on the same tests at the beginning of summer. [11] This loss was most acute in factual and procedural learning such as mathematical computation, where an average setback of more than two months of grade-level equivalency was observed among both middle- and lower-class students.
Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness [1] [2] is the voluntary choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4]