New York Parents Delay Formal Schooling for Kindergartners

A growing community of like-minded parents are opting to enrich rather than formally educate their not-yet-school-age children (6 is the age that New York City law requires parents to register their children as home-schooled). New York Times, October 15, 2008

"A Plan to Test the City’s Youngest Pupils" (NYTimes)

The Bloomberg administration, which has made accountability the watchword of its overhaul of public education, is asking elementary school principals across the city to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergartners. The New York Times, August 26, 2008

Starting Kindergarten Later Gives Students Only a Fleeting Edge, Study Finds

By the eighth grade, kindergarten's younger students catch up academically with older students. The study, "Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers" will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Human Resources.  ScienceDaily, August 18, 2008

Basic English skills test scores show dramatic leap after Casa Grande students attend all-day kindergarten

Reports on all-day kindergarten initiative that resulted in 92 percent of the students learning the skills required to succeed in first-grade.