Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Validation of a local implementation in LA County and children's school-readiness

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 227-240

  Soliday Hong, Sandra L ^a   Howes, Carollee ^b   Marcella, Jennifer ^b   Zucker, Eleanor ^b   Huang, Yiching ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care quality; Quality Rating and Improvement Systems; School readiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901113104     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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