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[quote=Anonymous]If you're interested in research, there is a lot out there -- http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=age+entry+school+delay+redshirting&hl=en&as_sdt=1,21

Some examples are below.  My own takeaway is that anti-redshirters should not be so afraid and defensive about delayed entry children gaining some competitive advantage.  If there is some advantage to be gained, it's relatively small.  Those parents who redshirt to gain some competitive academic advantage are not really making much progress.  Those who delay entry for other reasons (size, maturity, general readiness) should not be criticized.

Also, anyone who claims the research definitively supports one side is absolutely full of shit.

[quote] We find that younger children score substantially lower than older peers at the fourth, the
eighth and the tenth grade. The advantage of older students does not dissipate as they grow older[/quote]
http://www.ecostat.unical.it/RePEc/WorkingPapers/WP01_2011.pdf (2011)

[quote]Taken together, data suggest that there appear to be little or no motivation, engagement, or performance advantages to being markedly older-for-cohort, having delayed-entry status, or being retained in a grade. [/quote]
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/101/1/101/ (2009)

[quote]This study gathered follow-up data from the Terman Life Cycle Study (N = 1023) to examine how age at first reading and age at school entry relate to grade school academic performance, lifelong educational attainment, midlife health and mental adjustment, and longevity across eight decades. Early reading was associated with early academic success, but less lifelong educational attainment and worse midlife adjustment. Early school entry was associated with less educational attainment, worse midlife adjustment, and most importantly, increased mortality risk.[/quote] 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397308001597 (2009)
[i][Ed: My personal favorite!][/i]

[quote]Our review of 14 recent studies on the short- and long-term effects of entering 
kindergarten at an older age suggests that increasing California’s entry age will likely have a 
number of benefits, including boosting student achievement test scores. [/quote]
http://ewa.convio.net/docs/Changing%20the%20Kindergarten%20Cutoff%20Date.pdf (2008)

[quote]We find robust and significant positive effects on educational outcomes for pupils who enter school at 7 instead of 6 years of age: test scores at the end of primary school increase by about 0.40 standard deviations and the probability to attend the highest secondary schooling track increases by about 12% points.[/quote]
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k248328293683832/ (2008)

[quote]With family background factors and experience in child care in the first 54 months of life controlled, hierarchical linear modeling (growth curve) analysis revealed that children who entered kindergarten at younger ages had higher (estimated) scores in kindergarten on the Woodcock—Johnson (W-J) Letter-Word Recognition subtest but received lower ratings from kindergarten teachers on Language and Literacy and Mathematical Thinking scales. Furthermore, children who entered kindergarten at older ages evinced greater increases over time on 4 W-J subtests (i.e., Letter-Word Recognition, Applied Problems, Memory for Sentences, Picture Vocabulary) and outperformed children who started kindergarten at younger ages on 2 W-J subtests in 3rd grade (i.e., Applied Problems, Picture Vocabulary). Age of entry proved unrelated to socioemotional functioning.[/quote]
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10409280701283460 (2007)

[quote]The authors evaluated large-scale test data from Grades K-8 to investigate the difference in performance between younger children (summer birthday) and older children (fall birthday). The performance gap evident in kindergarten decreased rapidly in Grades 1-3 but persisted up to Grade 5, until leveling off at middle school. [/quote]
http://heldref-publications.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,2,5;journal,28,79;linkingpublicationresults,1:119936,1 (2006)

[quote]Our findings indicated statistically significant but relatively small achievement differences between oldest and youngest children when cognitive ability scores were controlled. Redshirts, however, did not appear to gain any advantage in achievement as a result of delaying school entry.[/quote]
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1520-6807(199007)27:3%3C260::AID-PITS2310270313%3E3.0.CO;2-V/abstract (2006)

[quote]The results of this study suggest that delaying kindergarten does not create any long-term advantages for students.[/quote]
http://epa.sagepub.com/content/28/2/153.short (2006)

[quote]The evidence suggests that within the five- to six-year-old range in which most children 
begin school in the U.S. (where most of the studies cited were conducted), age is not a 
significant predictor of ultimate academic success. ... To the contrary, time in school appears to contribute more to 
young children’s academic skills than time engaged in other activities outside of school.[/quote]
http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/documents/StipekANGxp.pdf (2003)

[quote]Results indicated a modest advantage in academic achievement for children who entered kindergarten at a relatively older age during the first year of school, but this advantage disappeared by third grade. The only advantage found in kindergarten and third grade for children who were relatively old when they entered school was in more positive feelings about their teacher.[/quote]
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397301000752 (2001)

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