Early School Adjustment and Educational Attainment

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1198-1228

  Magnuson, Katherine ^a   Duncan, Greg J ^b   Lee, Kenneth T H ^b   Metzger, Molly W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement gap; early childhood; policy; poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983474458     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: 19351011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831216634658     Document Type: Article

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