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  • The Problem With Holding Kids Back from Kindergarten

    02/13/2011 4:05:46 PM PST · by TheDingoAteMyBaby · 42 replies · 1+ views
    Newsweek ^ | February 08, 2011 | Kristina Dell
    As private kindergartens prepare to send out acceptance letters this week, competitive parents are trying to game the system with so called “red shirting”—delaying their kids start in school so they'll be more advanced then their classmates. Kristina Dell on why it's backfiring. Holly Korbey's son, Holden, was easy to spot in his kindergarten class—he was the one who actually looked kindergarten sized. "The other kids were just taller," says his mother.
 That's because unlike his classmates, most of whom were six years old, Holden was only five—the traditional kindergarten age. But entering kindergarten at age six is becoming more...
  • Holding Back Young Students: Is Program a Gift or a Stigma?

    06/25/2008 8:03:11 AM PDT · by Amelia · 14 replies · 69+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 6/25/2008 | WINNIE HU
    With the increasing emphasis on standardized testing over the past decade, large urban school systems have famously declared an end to so-called social promotion among youngsters lacking basic skills...Now the 8,400-student East Ramapo school district in this verdant stretch west of the Palisades is going further, having revived a controversial retention practice widely denounced in the 1980s to not only hold back nearly 12 percent of its first graders this spring but to segregate them in a separate classroom come fall. ...the principal of Hempstead Elementary here, said that merely holding back students without a special program to address their...