Children who start school later fare better, study finds

A quarter of NSW children are starting school a year later than they are eligible, and the delay is helping them fare better in kindergarten than their younger peers, a landmark study has found.

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Affluent parents are more likely than disadvantaged or migrant parents to keep their child home for an extra year, with rates of school delay varying from 25 per cent to 35 per cent in wealthy suburbs to less than 15 per cent in low-income areas of Sydney.

Education experts say the study provides further proof that the high cost of child care is forcing many parents to send children to school before they are ready, and have called for investment in free, universal early childhood education.

The University of NSW-led study of 100,000 children is the largest to look at kindergarten starting age in NSW, which has the highest rates of school delay in the country, and the first to compare it with developmental data.

https://www.smh.com.au/education/a-gift-of-time-children-who-start-school-later-fare-better-study-finds-20190408-p51bw1.html

Children who start school later fare better, study finds

Children who start school later fare better, study finds

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