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The HOME Inventory

Its Relation to School Failure and Development of an Elementary-Age Version

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The United States Commission on Excellence in Education recently reiterated concerns about the high percentage of school-age children who demonstrate poor academic performance and who show adjustment problems in school. Underachievement, classroom behavior problems, and other indicators of school failures have been of major concern to federal policymakers for quite some time.

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  1. Center for Child Development and Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72204, USA

    Robert H. Bradley & Stephen L. Rock

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  1. University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Bradley, R.H., Rock, S.L. (1985). The HOME Inventory. In: Frankenburg, W.K., Emde, R.N., Sullivan, J.W. (eds) Early Identification of Children at Risk. Topics in Developmental Psychobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0536-9_9

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