Improving family engagement: The organizational context and its influence on partnering with parents in formal child care settings

Early Childhood Research and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Douglass, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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