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Peer reviewedShepard, Lorrie A.; Smith, Mary Lee – Educational Leadership, 1986
Summarizes school readiness and retention research issues, including youngest first graders' performance, entrance age policies, voluntary decisions to wait an extra year, assessment of children's readiness, and the negative effects of kindergarten and first-grade retention. Concludes that age disadvantages are seldom serious and usually disappear…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Grade Repetition, Kindergarten
