Childhood poverty: Implications for school readiness and early childhood education

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 301-321

  Ryan, Rebecca M ^c   Fauth, Rebecca C ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^b  

^a National Children s Bureau   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203841198     Document Type: Chapter

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