Elementary schools do not segregate students by relative age despite decades of evidence that January-born children compete at a disadvantage with December-born children in the same class.

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Speaker

Malcolm Gladwell

Evidence Quote

do they divide the kids up and put the January to March kids in one class and the April to June kids and another and the July to September kids and another no they don't do that right even though we've had years and years and years of evidence that it's completely unfair

Source

A Perspective with Malcolm GladwellGoogle Zeitgeist
Created: 8/13/2026, 7:47:10 AM

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