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Intervention, Evaluation, and Policy Studies

Do High-Quality Kindergarten and First-Grade Classrooms Mitigate Preschool Fadeout?

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Pages 339-374 | Received 22 Mar 2017, Accepted 05 Feb 2018, Published online: 29 Mar 2018

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