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Advisory Committee Chairperson
Dr. Olivia Golden is the Assistant Secretary
for the Administration for Children and Families. Prior to this
appointment, Dr. Golden served as Commissioner of the Administration
on Children, Youth and Families, where she helped to create the
Early Head Start program, implemented the 1994 reauthorization
of Head Start to ensure quality services, created the Child Care
Bureau as a new Federal focus on child care, and helped lay the
groundwork for the President's Adoption 2002 initiative and the
1997 adoption legislation. Prior to working at the Department
of Health and Human Services, Dr. Golden served as the Director
of Programs and Policy for the Children's Defense Fund in Washington
DC, where she was responsible for policy development, advocacy,
research, and data analysis on a variety of issues related to
children and families. Dr. Golden received her Ph.D. in Public
Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
Advisory Committee Members
Dr. Martha S. Abbott-Shim is a professor
in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education
at Georgia State University. Dr. Abbott-Shim's expertise is in
the area of assessing the quality of early childhood teaching
practices and policies. She is currently a member of the technical
review panel for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth
Cohort project and the Director of the Georgia State Quality Research
Center where she is involved in a random assignment design effectiveness
study in Alabama. Dr. Abbott-Shim developed the Assessment Profile
for Early Childhood Programs, which is a comprehensive program
evaluation instrument for early childhood programs serving children
from infancy through school-age and the Assessment Profile: Research
Edition which has been used in numerous research studies. Dr.
Abbott-Shim received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the
University of Michigan.
Dr. J. Lawrence Aber is the Director of the
National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University.
His basic research interests focus on the social, emotional, behavioral,
and cognitive development of children and youth at risk due to
family and neighborhood poverty, exposure to violence, abuse and
neglect, and parental psychopathology. His applied research focuses
on process and outcome evaluations of innovative programs and
policies for at-risk children and families, including welfare-to-work
programs, comprehensive service programs, and violence prevention
programs. Dr. Aber received his Ph.D. in Clinical and Developmental
Psychology from Yale University.
Dr. Rosalinda B. Barrera is a professor in
the Language and Literacy Division of the Department of Curriculum
and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Barrera teaches courses pertaining to early childhood literacy
and multicultural children's literature. Her research includes
studies of the oral reading behavior (Spanish and English) of
young bilingual Mexican American students, their early reading
instruction in bilingual classrooms, and the quality and quantity
of contemporary Mexican American children's literature. Dr. Barrera
received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University
of Texas in Austin, where she specialized in elementary reading
education.
Dr. C. Hendricks Brown is the Director of
Research at the College of Public Health Research and a professor
in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University
of South Florida. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the
Departments of Biostatistics and Mental Hygiene at Johns Hopkins
University. Dr. Brown directs the Prevention Science and Methodology
Group, which focuses on the development of new designs and analytical
methods for evaluating prevention trials. He received his Ph.D.
in Statistics from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Donna M. Bryant is a Fellow at the Frank
Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina
(UNC)-Chapel Hill. Dr. Bryant directs the UNC Quality Research
Center where she is carrying out a random assignment effectiveness
study in North Carolina. She is a member of the NICHD Study of
Early Child Care Research Network and the Head Start Mental Health
Research Consortium, and was a member of the National Academy
of Sciences Head Start Roundtable. Dr. Bryant's past research
initiatives include the Early Head Start implementation study
ratings panel, the Infant Health and Development Program, the
Head Start Transition Demonstration Project, a Head Start/University
Partnership, and a variety of evaluations of programs in early
intervention, preschool, and early school years. She received
her Ph.D. in Psychology from UNC.
Dr. Margaret R. Burchinal is the Director
of the Design and Statistical Computing Unit at the Frank Porter
Graham Child Development Center at University of North Carolina
(UNC), Chapel Hill. Dr. Burchinal is a member of the NICHD Study
of Early Child Care Research Network and has been a consultant
for the Comprehensive Child Development Program and the Family
and Child Experiences Survey. She has also been involved in research
on child care quality, low birthweight children, and language
development and has extensive expertise in the design and data
analysis of complex longitudinal studies. She received her Ph.D.
in Quantitative Psychology from UNC.
Dr. Thomas D. Cook is a Professor of Sociology,
Psychology, Education, and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
Dr. Cook's expertise is in experimental design and qualitative
and quantitative data analysis, and he has written extensively
on evaluations in real world settings. Dr. Cook was a member of
the National Academy of Sciences Head Start Roundtable and has
been a consultant on both the Comprehensive Child Development
Program and the Family and Child Experiences Survey. He received
a Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford University.
Ms. Gayle Cunningham is the Executive Director
of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity (JCCEO)
Community Action Agency in Birmingham, Alabama, and Director of
JCCEO's Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. She is a research
partner with the Georgia State University Head Start Quality Research
Center where the JCCEO Head Start program participated in a random
assignment design effectiveness study for the 1998-1999 program
year. Ms. Cunningham was formerly an Assistant Professor responsible
for coordination of the early childhood AA degree program at Delgado
Community College in New Orleans, and a Senior Research Associate
for Bank Street College where she led the expansion of the Child
Development Associate credentialing program to include infant
and toddler caregivers, home visitors, and family day care providers.
Ms. Cunningham received her M.S. in early childhood education,
supervision, and administration from Bank Street College of Education.
Dr. Greg J. Duncan is a Professor of Education
and Social Policy at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern
University and Deputy Director of the Northwestern University/University
of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. Dr. Duncan has published
extensively on issues of income distribution, child poverty, and
welfare dependency. He is the co-editor of two books on neighborhood
poverty and child development: "Consequences of Growing up Poor"
(1997), and the two-volume "Neighborhood Poverty" (1997). He is
currently investigating the effects of the neighborhood on child
and adolescent development and other issues involving welfare
reform and income distribution. Dr. Duncan is a member of the
interdisciplinary Family and Child Well-Being Research Network
of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Harriet C. Ganson is an Assistant Director
for Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues in the Health,
Education, and Human Services Division of the U.S. General Accounting
Office (GAO). Dr. Ganson specializes in early childhood programs
and elementary and secondary education programs. Most recently
she directed several research and evaluation efforts related to
the Head Start program. Prior to her work with the GAO, Dr. Ganson
served as a senior project manager with CSR, Inc., a research
and evaluation consulting firm. She also taught Sociology courses
at George Mason University and Ohio State University. Dr. Ganson
received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Ohio State University.
Mr. Richard F. Gonzales is the Assistant
Deputy Commissioner for the Administration for Children's Services-Head
Start in New York City. In this position, Mr. Gonzales is responsible
for administering, monitoring, and providing technical assistance
to the 73 delegate Head Start agencies that provide services to
nearly 19,000 preschool children and their families throughout
New York City. Mr. Gonzales has over 24 years of experience in
the early childhood field, working as a child care teacher as
well as Assistant Director and Director of the Builders for Family
and Youth Head Start. He has also worked as a research partner
with Columbia University for several Head Start/University Partnership
projects. Mr. Gonzales has a M.S. in Early Childhood Education
from the Bank Street College of Education.
Ms. Sarah M. Greene is the Chief Executive
Officer of the National Head Start Association. She has been involved
with Head Start in various capacities since 1969, having served
as the President of the National Head Start Association, President
of the Florida Head Start Directors Association, Director of a
Head Start program, Executive Director of Manatee Opportunity
Council and Head Start, Education Coordinator, and classroom teacher.
She serves or has served on the following national committees:
Impact on Service Delivery of Families with Substance Abuse Problems,
National Health/Education Consortium, Child Care Action Campaign,
National Association for the Education of Young Children, and
the Education Goals One Task Force. She has also served on the
Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers,
Advisory Panel for the Head Start Evaluation Design Project, and
Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion.
Dr. Wade F. Horn is President of the National
Fatherhood Initiative, an affiliate scholar with the Hudson Institute
in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an adjunct faculty member at the
Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. He was the Commissioner
of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families and Chief
of the Children's Bureau within the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services from 1989-1993. Dr. Horn also served as a Presidential
appointee to the National Commission on Children and as a member
of the National Commission on Childhood Disability. Prior to these
appointments, Dr. Horn was the Director of Outpatient Psychological
Services at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center in
Washington, DC and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at George Washington University. Dr. Horn received his
Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from Southern Illinois University.
Dr. Jacqueline Jones is a Senior Research
Associate in the Division of Cognitive and Instructional Science
at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior
to this position, Dr. Jones served as a faculty member at Lehman
College of the City University of New York where she coordinated
the graduate teacher training program in learning disabilities.
Most recently Dr. Jones has been engaged in a series of school-based
research projects that have focused on the documentation and assessment
of various aspects of teaching and learning. The projects have
included collaborative work with early childhood teachers in several
urban and suburban districts to document young children's perceptions
of natural phenomenon, the development of procedures to document
accomplished teaching, analysis of the decision-making processes
utilized by performance-assessment assessors, and an examination
of the impact of portfolio implementation on teachers' instructional
practice. Dr. Jones received her Ph.D. in Communicative Disorders
with a specialization in Language and Learning Disabilities from
Northwestern University.
Dr. Joan Lombardi is a Senior Associate at
the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale
University. Dr. Lombardi served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary
for External Affairs in the Administration for Children and Families
and as the first Associate Commissioner to direct the Child Care
Bureau in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She
also coordinated the work of the Advisory Committee on Head Start
Quality and Expansion and was primary author of its report Creating
a 21st Century Head Start. She currently serves as an advisor
to a number of foundations and national organizations. She received
her Ph.D. from the Institute for Child Study at the University
of Maryland.
Dr. John Love is a senior fellow at Mathematica
Policy Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Love has 28 years
of experience conducting research, program evaluations, and policy
studies with Head Start, early care and education, and family
programs. Trained as a developmental psychologist, Dr. Love has
devoted much of his career to understanding issues in providing
comprehensive services to low-income families and their children
and enhancing the development and well-being of children and families.
He is currently directing the national Early Head Start Research
and Evaluation Project for the Administration on Children, Youth
and Families. This study is examining program impacts on infants
and toddlers and their families within a randomized design across
17 sites, and includes a comprehensive study of program implementation
and quality. Dr. Love is also a principal investigator for a study
of infant child care under welfare reform for the Administration
for Children and Families, and for the evaluation of Free to Grow,
a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's initiative to implement models
of substance abuse prevention through Head Start collaborations
with community agencies. Dr. Love has served on numerous panels
and advisory committees, including the Head Start Performance
Measures Technical Work Group and the advisory panel for the evaluation
of the Carnegie Corporation's Starting Points initiative. Dr.
Love received his Ph.D. in Child Behavior and Development from
the University of Iowa.
Ms. Patricia Montoya is the Commissioner
of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF).
Prior to assuming leadership of ACYF, Ms. Montoya was the Regional
Director of Region VI for the Department of Health and Human Services.
A nurse by training, Ms. Montoya has an extensive clinical background.
She received her Masters Degree in Public Administration/Health
Administration from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Dr. Suzanne M. Randolph is an Associate Professor
in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Maryland.
She is currently involved in research for the U.S. Department
of Education on the role of family and school in promoting positive
developmental outcomes for children in violent neighborhoods.
She is also conducting a study of poverty and the ecology of African
American children's development for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. Dr. Randolph is currently a member of the
NICHD Study of Early Child Care Research Network, a member of
the Technical Working Group for Early Head Start, and was a member
of the National Academy of Sciences Head Start Roundtable. Dr.
Randolph received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University
of Michigan.
Dr. Craig T. Ramey is the founding Director
of the Civitan International Research Center at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), as well as a Professor of Psychology,
Pediatrics, Neurobiology, and Maternal and Child Health at UAB.
Among his major research initiatives are the Carolina Abecedarian
Project, a multidisciplinary primary prevention research program;
Project CARE, a comparison of two primary prevention strategies
for at-risk children; and the Infant Health and Development Program,
an eight-site multidisciplinary intervention study of low-birthweight
infants. Dr. Ramey also co-directed the evaluation of the Head
Start/Public School Transition Project, a 32-site randomized trial
of transition services. He received his Ph.D. in Developmental
Psychology from West Virginia University.
Dr. Peter H. Rossi is a retired Professor
Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and the Director Emeritus
of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Rossi is also the Director of
Evaluation Design and Analysis and faculty Research Associate
within the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of
Chicago. His professional credits include numerous publications,
advisory board memberships, and elected positions within several
professional research societies. Dr. Rossi's primary research
expertise lies in methodology and the design of program evaluations.
In addition to his evaluative work, he has also conducted extensive
research on such broad-ranging topics as education, crime, and
homelessness. Dr. Rossi received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia
University.
Dr. Lawrence J. Schweinhart is Chair of the
Research Division of High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Dr. Schweinhart currently directs the
High/Scope's Head Start Quality Research Center and is involved
in a random-assignment-design effectiveness study at selected
Michigan Head Start sites. He is currently involved in conducting
an evaluation of the Michigan School Readiness Program. He has
also directed a study of the High/Scope Child Observation Record
as an assessment of child development in Head Start and has helped
conduct and represent the High/Scope Perry Preschool Study and
the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Companion Study since 1975.
Dr. Schweinhart received his Ph.D. in Education from Indiana University.
Ms. Ann Segal is the Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Policy Initiatives in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS). Her principal areas of responsibility
include issues related to children, youth, and families and the
management of ASPE. Prior to 1998, Ms. Segal worked at DHHS for
nearly 20 years, as Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Human Services Policy where she dealt with welfare reform and
a variety of human service issues; Director of the Division for
Children and Youth Policy; and Executive Assistant for the Assistant
Secretary. Ms. Segal received her M.S. in Education from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Robert G. St. Pierre is Vice President
of Abt Associates Inc., where for the last 25 years he has been
principal investigator for educational research, evaluation, and
policy analysis projects spanning diverse areas such as family
literacy, family support, child development, compensatory education,
curricular interventions, school health education, and child nutrition.
He has published widely in evaluation and educational research
journals, and is active in the American Evaluation Association.
Dr. St. Pierre directed national evaluations of the Even Start
Family Literacy Program and the Comprehensive Child Development
Program. He received his Ph.D. in Education Research, Measurement
and Evaluation at Boston College.
Ms. Helen H. Taylor is the Associate Commissioner
of the Head Start Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and
Families. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Taylor was the Executive
Director of the National Child Day Care Association in Washington,
DC. She has served on numerous committees, including the Advisory
Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion, the Advisory Committee
on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers, National Academy
of Sciences Head Start Roundtable, the National Academy of Early
Childhood Education, and the Day Care Advisory Committee of the
National Black Child Development Institute. In addition, Ms. Taylor
is a former Chairperson of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Early
Childhood Development, a board member of the Washington Child
Development Council and the Bright Beginnings Program for Homeless
Children, and a past board member of the National Association
for the Education of Young Children. Ms. Taylor received her M.S.
in early childhood curriculum and instruction from the Catholic
University of America.
Dr. Grover J. Whitehurst is a Professor and
Chair of the Psychology Department at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook and serves on the National Research Council's
Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy as well as on the Department
of Education's Family Literacy Synthesis Panel. His research focuses
on determinants of literacy success for children from low-income
backgrounds, the nature and consequences of early language delay,
and educational uses of interactive technology. Dr. Whitehurst
is currently directing a Head Start/University Partnership focusing
on the determinants of later academic success of children attending
Head Start. He received his Ph.D. in Child Psychology at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Diane J. Willis is a Professor of Psychology
in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center and Director of Psychological Services
and Training at the Child Study Center. Dr. Willis is also the
Infant/Toddler Specialist with the American Indian Head Start
Quality Improvement Center and a voting member of the Kiowa Tribe.
In addition, Dr. Willis is President of the Oklahoma Association
of Infant Mental Health, serves on the Board of Directors of both
the Division of Psychotherapy and the Division of the Society
of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association
(APA), and is a member of the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs
of the APA. Dr. Willis received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology
from the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa is an Assistant Professor
in the Psychology Department at New York University. Dr. Yoshikawa
is currently a consultant for the Head Start Mental Health Research
Consortium, as well as for the Head Start Training and Technical
Assistance Network Workgroup on Mental Health. He was the Project
Coordinator for the Task Force on Head Start and Mental Health
of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and co-authored
"Lessons from the Field: Head Start Mental Health Strategies to
Meet Changing Needs" in 1997. Dr. Yoshikawa received his Ph.D.
in Clinical Psychology from New York University.
Dr. Edward F. Zigler is a Sterling Professor
of Psychology, Head of the Psychology Section of the Child Study
Center, and Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and
Social Policy at Yale University. He is the author and co-author
of numerous publications regarding normal child development, psychopathology,
and mental retardation. Dr. Zigler served as Chief of the U.S.
Children's Bureau and was the first Director of the Office of
Child Development, now the Administration on Children, Youth and
Families. He was also one of the original planners of Head Start.
Dr. Zigler was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Head
Start Roundtable, the Advisory Committee on Services for Families
with Infants and Toddlers, and the Advisory Committee on Head
Start Quality and Expansion. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Texas.
Dr. Nicholas Zill is a Vice President and
Study Area Director at Westat, Inc. in Rockville, MD. Dr. Zill's
expertise lies in the use of survey research and statistics to
monitor the education, health, and well-being of children. Currently,
Dr. Zill directs the Head Start Performance Measures Center, including
the child assessment and classroom observation portions of the
Family and Child Experiences Survey, and provides support for
the work of the Head Start Quality Research Center Consortium.
He also is an advisor to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten
(ECLS-K) cohort, and is involved in the ECLS birth cohort study
to be launched in 2000. He was a member of the data task force
and Goal One Resource Group of the National Education Goals Panel
and Chair of the mental health statistics subcommittee of the
U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Dr. Zill
received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University.
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