Head Start's Comparative Advantage: Myth or Reality?

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-418

  Gormley, William T ^a   Phillips, Deborah ^a   Adelstein, Shirley ^a   Shaw, Catherine ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; LITERACY; LOW INCOME POPULATION;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TULSA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956542061     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2010.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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