Increasing quality in early care and learning environments

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-169

  Fontaine, Nancy S ^a   Torre, L Dee ^b   Grafwallner, Rolf ^c   Underhill, Brian ^b  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MGT of America Inc   (United States)

^c Maryland State Department of Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Early care; Learning environments; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249124902     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300443042000302690     Document Type: Article

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