This achievement gap has not been closed by the time youngsters are ready to leave secondary schools - with August-born teenagers 20% more likely to be in vocational rather than academic study after school.
After a year's study at the Guildhall School of Music in England, she hit the London jazz scene.
After high school, Glasper moved to New York to study music at the New School.
After university she became one of the first women in America to be admitted to a medical school, but was excluded from further study after she married.
"Traditionally, there was a distinction between the school day and after school, " says Fornari, who was not involved in the study.
But he had Dickens as bedtime reading, finished high school and went on to study literature at Swarthmore, where after a couple of suspensions he graduated with the best degree.
That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Today students pay thousands of dollars to study for their bar exams, even after they have finished law school.
After receiving his applied physics degree, he chose to enter the law school and study intellectual property law over the popular choice of an MBA program, as most of his classmates pursued.
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They do not have special lessons as such but meet once a month after school - rising to once a week in their third year - to learn study skills and take on extra work they would not be able to do in a whole-ability class, a recent example being chromatography in chemistry.
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They did not take their arithmetic course. (Applause.) They need to talk to this young lady and get some tutoring. (Applause.) They need to stay after school. (Applause.) They need to get some extra study hall in there.
After reading about a circulating water cooling cap that was used in a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sleep study, the girls set about creating a cheaper, lighter, and less onerous solution the cooling headband.
The findings of the study come just weeks after a leading Scottish businessman caused a furore by telling pupils at a top school they should leave Scotland if they want to be successful.
The study's findings come a year after a report by the Welsh Economy Research Unit at Cardiff Business School for CHC warned that the government's wish for 6, 500 new homes may need to be reviewed in light of the recession.
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