Father-school communication in preschool and kindergarten

School Psychology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-308

  Rimm Kaufman, Sara E ^a   Zhang, Yubo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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