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

"Chris" <chrissypete2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 Jul 18, 9:57 am, Beliavsky <beliav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> NBER has a new study on the effects of red****rting. The abstract is 
>> athttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w14124and
the >full paper 
>> athttp://www.nber.org/~dynarski/Deming_Dynarski_Childhood.pdf.
Overall
>> the authors appear negative about it:
>>
>> "We show that the decreased grade attainment of six-year-olds
>> reverberates well beyond the kindergarten classroom. Recent stagnation
>> in the high school and college completion rates of young people is

..>> partly explained by their later start in primary school. The
>> relatively late start of boys in primary school explains a small but
>> significant ****tion of the rising gender gaps in high school
>> graduation and college completion. Increases in the age of legal
>> school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational
>> attainment, since lower-income children are at greater risk of
>> dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit."

>Is this about people holding their children back from entry if they
>actually meet the age date deadline, that they are already 5 at the
>beginning of the school year, or just if they are 2 months short of
>the December 1 cutoff (if that is the cutoff)?


I would think that since cutoffs range from August 1 to December 31, 
depending on what state you're in (I think that's right, but states do
keep 
changing things), a child who falls in that range probably would have been

considered in the on-time cohort, simply because, while the child with a 
November birthday may have been considered to be held out in California,
in 
TN, he'd be entering on time.

I just wish it worked for parents to have control the other way. There are

quite a few states where, with DD's birthday, it wouldn't be a problem. I 
could send her at 4 3/4, and it would be completely normal. But with a 
October 1 cutoff, a November birthday kid has to jump through a ton of
hoops 
to get in, and it's STILL up to the school, not the parent, to make the 
final call, even though the school has probably only met the child once or

twice, and the parent knows their child much better (and, in my case, the 
parent works with preschool and school aged children professionally, and 
holds a state credential in early childhood and elementary education).