Intermediary organizations as capacity builders in family educational involvement

Urban Education

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-105

  Lopez, M Elena ^a   Kreider, Holly ^a   Coffman, Julia ^a  

^a Harvard Family Research Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Family and school relationships; Family involvement; Intermediary organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944409979     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085904270375     Document Type: Article

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