Academic performance of language-minority students and all-day kindergarten: a longitudinal study

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-48

  Chang, Mido ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic achievement; all day kindergarten; language minority students; longitudinal analysis; racial minority students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856818750     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2011.600524     Document Type: Article

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