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Required education is education which is required per government, ordinarily at a national level. Numbers of of the globe's countries okay, stand required education across at least a primary grades. Mandatory education at a primary level was affirmed as a human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nonetheless, such mandates were unknown prior to 1819, when required schooling was introduced within Prussia. It step by step spread to more countries in a 19th century, reaching the U.s. state of Massachusetts in 1852, and quickly spreading to more United states states thenceforth.

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