Forty Years of School Readiness Research: What Have We Learned?

Childhood Education

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 260-266

  Winter, Suzanne M ^a   Kelley, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70350723138     PISSN: 00094056     EISSN: 21620725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2008.10523022     Document Type: Article

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