The effects of participation in a head start-public school transition program on kindergarten children's social competence

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 51-66

  Mantzicopoulos, Panayota ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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