A Close-Up Look: At Child Care Program Strengths and Weaknesses

Young Children

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 51-64

  Cryer, Debby ^a   Phillipsen, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

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