Word: rescorla
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...Leslie Rescorla, a Bryn Mawr clinical child psychologist, notes that it is currently common practice for educators to recommend that socially or physically immature children with autumn birthdays enter kindergarten at six, ( rather than five. The practice makes sense, Rescorla says, if parents have special concerns about their child's social development: "If it's interacting, cooperating, playing with others you're worried about, then keeping children in nursery school for another year is good. It's nursery school, not kindergarten, where these important skills are now being learned...