SCHOOL ENTRY AGE
effect of alteration RESEARCH BY COUNCIL (Per Pr»ss Association.) .WELLINGTON, this day. Tho New Zealand Council for Educational Research is beginning 'an investigation into some effects of late school entrance of pupils, with special reference to the raising of the school entrance age in 1932. The exeoutive officer of the council, Dr. C. E. Beebv, said that no experiment could determine with the sure ness of mathematical proof whether five or'-.six was the'ideal age for entrance. ‘ The council, he said,.was taking two independent, lines of- approach, one htiFed bn - voluntary -late entrance that occurred with' a proportion of children ’' before the ;raising/of tho entrance age, and the other..on involuntary Into ont which was now universal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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118SCHOOL ENTRY AGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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