Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

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>On Jul 18, 6:57=A0am, Beliavsky <beliav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> NBER has a new study on the effects of red****rting.
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>I agree on the whole. However, it seems logical to suppose that in a
>few cases a child on the young end of the grade might in fact be
>better off on the other side of the cutoff, just as in a few cases a
>child on the old end of the grade would have been better off entering
>early. It's the idea that children are *always* better off being older
>in grade that seems to me ridiculous.

My son's 2nd grade teacher made that argument concerning him, and his
being
"young" meant that he had an early October birthdate against a December 15
cutoff.  That would make a good ****tion of a class "young".

I don't think it's a problem of a few judicious cases - it's a problem of
widespread practice with social forces going in that direction. Else it
wouldn't
be borne out in these studies.

Banty