Classroom age composition and rates of change in school readiness for children enrolled in Head Start

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Bell, Elizabeth R ^a   Greenfield, Daryl B ^a   Bulotsky Shearer, Rebecca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom age composition; Head Start; Mixed age classrooms; Preschool; School readiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870014499     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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