New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute and Orebro University, has found that ‘young relative age’—being young in a school class—puts a child at a long-term disadvantage compared to their older peers. Researchers are now calling for greater flexibility about school starting age.
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Source: Phys.org