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  1. Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, 66045, Lawrence, Kansas

    Montrose M. Wolf, Elery L. Phillips, Dean L. Fixsen, Curtis J. Braukmann, Kathryn A. Kirigin, Alan G. Willner & Jean Schumaker

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Elery Phillips is now Deputy Director of Child Care, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Omaha, Nebraska; and Dean Fixsen is now at the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development, Omaha, Nebraska. This research has been supported by Grants MH20030, MH13644, and MH13881 from the National Institute of Mental Health (Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency) and by Grant HD03144 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Bureau of Child Research and the Department of Human Development, University of Kansas.

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Wolf, M.M., Phillips, E.L., Fixsen, D.L. et al. Achievement place: The teaching-family model. Child Youth Care Forum 5, 92–103 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555232

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