Ecological contexts and early learning: Contributions of child, family, and classroom factors during Head Start, to literacy and mathematics growth through first grade

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-250

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Skibbe, Lori E ^b   Miller, Alison ^c   Zimmerman, Marc ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Head Start; Literacy; Mathematics; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249170335     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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