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National Cutoff Date for Students Entering Kindergarten or First Grade. Promoting State Legislation.
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Div. of Instruction and Professional Development. – 1987
The National Education Association prepared this booklet on school entrance age because the association feels that the issue of a national cutoff date for entrance to kindergarten is perhaps the least controversial, most popular, and easiest educational reform issue to promote. The first part of the booklet: (1) provides information that supports…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Grade 1
Escalating Academic Demand in Kindergarten: Counterproductive Policies.
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Shepard, Lorrie A.; Smith, Mary Lee – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Policies such as raising of entrance age, readiness screening, and kindergarten retention are intended to solve the problem of inappropriate academic demand by removing younger or unready children from the regular classroom. Research evidence does not support the efficacy of these policies. (RH)
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Grade 1
Evaluation of Early Entrance to Kindergarten [and] Handwriting and Reading Comprehension: Three Studies.
Hilderbrand, John A.; And Others – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1983
The first part of this document presents the results of a survey of early entrance testing procedures in 25 Florida districts and details teacher ratings of 486 first-grade and 154 kindergarten students whose entrance test results had permitted them to enter kindergarten a year earlier than other students with birthdays between October and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Cursive Writing, Early Admission