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Download full textDeming, David; Dynarski, Susan – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2008
Forty years ago, 96 percent of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 percent. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in kindergarten rather than first grade. This paper documents this historical shift. We show…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Enrollment, Kindergarten, Grade 1
