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Download full textRange, Bret; Dougan, Kelli; Pijanowski, John – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
In this article, the authors discuss two interventions deployed to remediate low performing students. The first is grade level retention in which a student is required to repeat a given grade due to lack of academic or social progress. The second is academic redshirting in which a parent voluntarily delays the entrance of her child into…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, Enrollment
O'Brien, Marion – 1991
Three types of intervention strategies are helping children make a successful transition into kindergarten: early intervention programs, school survival skill training, and delayed school entry. Early intervention programs are early childhood and preschool programs such as Head Start. The overall long-term effectiveness of such programs has…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedBredekamp, Sue; Shepard, Lorrie – Young Children, 1989
Describes ways in which well-intentioned efforts to protect young children from inappropriate school practices have had the opposite effect. Readiness testing, retention, transition classes, tracking, and increased entrance age are discussed. Alternative strategies are proposed. (BB)
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students, Expectation
Nagy, Jozsef – 1989
This case study describes an innovative school entry system in which children are registered at school according to their stage of development, not their age. The system was introduced by law in Hungary in 1986. In this study, an introduction is followed by a discussion of problems in curricular articulation. Problems are discussed in terms of the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Classification, Developmental Stages
