The United States differs from many other countries in that compulsory schooling ends at age 16, thus making it possible for many students to leave school before completing basic education as defined in United States.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

Only 22% of girls above the age of ten complete primary schooling, compared with 47% of boys.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan

The latest available information indicates that close to 22 percent of students in this age bracket do not complete primary schooling on time.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

In theory all the rich data on Facebook-- such as age, gender, geography, schooling, entertainment tastes and brand preferences--are available to marketers whose customers give them permission to see their personal data.

FORBES: Technology

The year is 1920 and Albert Gore has just finished eighth grade, an age when many farm children quit their formal schooling.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

Compulsory schooling, introduced in the nineteenth century, pushed back the age of maturity to sixteen or so.

NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

Schooling should certainly not be about deciding who is worthy of a good education at the age of 11, and sending all the failures to the educational scrap heap.

BBC: Your views on selective education