Learning from others: State efforts to expand services and build systems of early care and education

Investing in Early Childhood Development: Evidence to Support a Movement for Educational Change

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-112

  Kauerz, Kristie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 79961211177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230610415     Document Type: Chapter

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