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Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness

Taryn W. Morrissey, Scott W. Allard, Elizabeth Pelletier
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2022, 8 (3) 100-123; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.04
Taryn W. Morrissey
aSPA Dean’s Scholar Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University, United States
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Scott W. Allard
bDaniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
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vol. 8 no. 3 100-123
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.04

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2377-8253
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  • Published online May 12, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Morrissey, Taryn W., Scott W. Allard, and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2022. “Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(3): 100–123. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.04. The authors are grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for funding this work and for the research assistance of Gonnie Park, Adam Porton, Kelsey Arbuckle, and Katherine Engel. Direct correspondence to: Taryn W. Morrissey, at morrisse@american.edu, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Taryn W. Morrisseya,
  2. Scott W. Allardb and
  3. Elizabeth Pelletierc
  1. aSPA Dean’s Scholar Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University, United States
  2. bDaniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
  3. cPhD student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Taryn W. Morrissey, (morrisse{at}american.edu)
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