Academic and cognitive functioning in first grade: Associations with earlier home and child care predictors and with concurrent home and classroom experiences

School Psychology Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-30

  Downer, Jason T ^a   Pianta, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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