Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
It's a tricky question— is your child ready for kindergarten? Or not?
Five years ago, a California law gradually changed the cutoff birthdate for entry to kindergarten so that by 2014 all California kids would be at least 5 years old when they began kindergarten.
Before that, kids in California had been starting kindergarten earlier than children in most other states, some before they really had all the necessarily skills to succeed.
Now a new study out of Stanford finds strong evidence that enrolling children in kindergarten even later— at age 6 or even age 7, rather than at age 5— can result in dramatic mental health benefits.
Southern California Public Radio's Deepa Fernandes has been looking into the study and joined Take Two to discuss.
To hear the full interview, click the link above.