It seems recent research shows that children born in the summer tend to do less well at school than their older classmates:
"The latest research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) focuses on England and looks at the test scores and happiness levels of August-born children compared with their older, September-born peers. It found children born in August score substantially lower in national achievement tests and other measures of cognitive skills".
Well, well what a surprise! This is exactly the same finding as that current when I first studied educational inequality research, which was a fairly long time ago - 1965 to be precise. So, after 46 years, we still have the same result. And I expect we will still have the same statistically illiterate responses that you could find then ... "Well my child/someone I know was born in August and did ever so well so the research is wrong". Doh!
