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Study of California's Transitional Kindergarten Program: Report on the First Year of Implementation
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Quick, Heather; Manship, Karen; González, Raquel; Holod, Aleksandra; Cadigan, Michele; Anthony, Jennifer; Hauser, Alison; Madsen, Shannon; Blum, Jarah; Mercado-Garcia, Diana – American Institutes for Research, 2014
In 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Kindergarten Readiness Act into law, which changed the kindergarten entry age so that children must turn 5 by September instead of December to enroll. The new grade level was put into place to promote school readiness for California's youngest learners. It also established a new grade…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
California's Transitional Kindergarten Program: Report on the First Year of Implementation. Executive Summary
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American Institutes for Research, 2014
In 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Kindergarten Readiness Act into law, which changed the kindergarten entry age so that children must turn 5 by September instead of December to enroll. The new grade level was put into place to promote school readiness for California's youngest learners. It also established a new grade…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
The Early Reading and Mathematics Achievement of Children Who Repeated Kindergarten or Who Began School a Year Late. Statistics In Brief. NCES 2006-064
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Malone, Lizabeth M.; West, Jerry; Denton, Kristin Flanagan; Park, Jen – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
Most children enter kindergarten when they are 5 years of age and move into first grade when they are 6. This time period is marked by great developmental change (Sameroff and Haith 1996), and children differ in what they can and cannot do socially, physically, and cognitively. Therefore, parents and educators are concerned whether certain…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Enrollment, Mathematics Achievement, School Readiness
The State Report on Grade Level Retention of Students as of October 1992. A Report from the State Board of Education, Submitted to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, and the Seventy-Third Texas Legislature.
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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1993
As mandated by state law, the Texas Education Agency presents a summary of data relating to grade-level retention of students reported by grade, ethnicity, and gender. The reported total number of students who repeated a grade in Texas schools in 1992-93 was 118,888. An additional 3,243 students, or 1.24% of the first grade, were placed in…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Age Differences, Dropout Rate, Educational Trends