Investment in leadership training - The payoff for early childhod education

Young Children

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-40

  Bloom, Paula Jorde ^a,b   Bella, Jill ^b  

^a McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership   (United States)

^b NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 28844479082     PISSN: 00440728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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