The New Yorker – Maria Konnikova
“Redshirting is the practice of holding a child back for an extra year before the start of kindergarten…While earlier studies have argued that redshirted children do better both socially and academically…more recent analyses suggest that the opposite may well be the case: the youngest kids, who barely make the age cutoff but are enrolled anyway, ultimately end up on top—not their older classmates.” (more)