Profiles of school readiness among four-year-old Head Start children

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-626

  Halle, Tamara G ^a   Hair, Elizabeth C ^a   Wandner, Laura D ^a   Chien, Nina C ^a  

^a CHILD TRENDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Classroom quality; Head Start; Profiles; School readiness; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869053475     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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