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Download full textWest, Jerry; Meek, Anne; Hurst, David – 2000
Raising the age of eligibility to enter kindergarten has not eliminated variations in children's readiness for school, and parents and teachers have used delayed entry and retention as strategies to accommodate these variations. Information from the 1993 and 1995 National Household Education Survey is used to describe the numbers and…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Individual Differences, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Zill, Nicholas; Loomis, Laura Spencer; West, Jerry – 1997
Some parents have chosen to delay their children's enrollment in kindergarten by a year because of individual differences in the pace and pattern of children's development. In other situations, some schools recommend delaying a child's school entry based on "readiness" testing or require that some kindergartners attend kindergarten for a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Delays, Grade Repetition, Grade 1
