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We’re still talking about kindergarten redshirting*.

Slate’s Emily Bazelon the evidence (including the recent ) and suggests we should be skeptical of public policies that delay children’s entry to kindergarten–but the calculus is more complicated for individual parents, who might seek potential advantages from redshirting even if there’s no evidence they actually exist, and even if such individual decisions may collectively have negative results.

Matthew Ladner ( Joanne Jacobs) disagrees, kindergarten redshirting as a fad and saying parents should look elsewhere for educational advantages. He also pointed us to this on Vox, an excellent website that translates policy-relevant economics research into useful analysis for lay readers. International evidence suggests that starting school later doesn’t improve attainment or test scores, and that it depresses earnings at age 30.

And with this strollerderby , the debate has moved to the parenting blogs as well.

You can see our redshirting posts .

*and not just because it’s an excuse to post the adorable photo, courtesy of flickr user wiskeyboytx.