Residential education: An emerging resource for improving educational outcomes for youth in foster care?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-160

  Lee, Bethany ^a   Barth, Rick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boarding schools; Foster care; Residential education

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149112742     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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