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Pages 327-334

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From page 327...
... He has been a member of three NAS committees, including the Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy. His research interests and areas of expertise include public policy, income distribution, poverty policy, public finance, and welfare reform.
From page 328...
... She recently served as research associate on the National Academy of Sciences report Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. Prior to her work on youth development at NAS, she had responsibility at the board for the dissemination of From Neurons to Neighborhoods, a report on the science of early childhood development, and for supporting members of the Forum on Adolescence.
From page 329...
... She was the former director of the National Child Welfare Research Center, Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include child and family policy, including child welfare and child care policy, family development, family preservation and support programs, program evaluation, and public policy analysis.
From page 330...
... She has an M.A. in public policy from the George Washington University.
From page 331...
... What Helps? , published by Harvard University Press in 1994, and co-editor with Barney Cohen and Ronald Rindfuss of Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health, published by the National Academy Press in 1996.
From page 332...
... She has a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
From page 333...
... Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation, a panel appointed to help design the national impact evaluation of Head Start. In 2001 he was awarded the Louise Kidder Early Career Award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Early Career Award, and the William T


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