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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 455-464
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is the Henry Lee Shattuck professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include children's language development as influenced by interaction with adults in home and preschool settings, literacy development as related to language skills and as influenced by home and school factors, and issues related to the acquisition of English oral and literacy skills by language-minority children.
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Margaret Burchinal is a professor in the Department of Education at the University of California at Irvine and senior scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, as well as a research professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has served as the primary statistician for many educational studies of early childhood, including the 11-state Pre-Kindergarten Evaluation for the National Center for Early Learning and Development; the longitudinal study of 1,300 children in the Study of Early Child Care of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the 4-state evaluation of child care in the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study; the 3-site study of family child care homes in the Family Child Care and Relative Care Study; and the Abecedarian and CARE Projects.
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and fetal development; fetal brain i maging; and neurocognitive development. His secondary research interests include maternal psychopathology in expectant women, depression in welfare mothers, and effects of out-of-home and foster care on child psychological development.
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He has published extensively in the area of language teaching and bilingual development and is currently conducting research on effective schooling for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. He is the author of Hispanic Education in the United States: Raíces y Alas; Understanding and Meeting the Challenge of Student Diversity; and Teaching and Learning in Two Languages: Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States.
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Eboni Howard is director of the Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy at the Erikson Institute and holds the Frances Stott chair in early childhood policy research. She has extensive experience in evaluating program implementation and outcomes in the areas of childhood education, early intervention, welfare, family support, child abuse prevention, and foster care practices.
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He is the author of numerous scientific and scholarly publications and has served on several professional committees, including the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Technical Planning Group of the National Education Goals Panel, and as chair of the Committee on Child Development and Social Policy of the Society for Research in Child Development. He is a former editor of Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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She is currently conducting projects on the outcomes of infants experiencing neonatal complications like low birth weight, interventions potentially ameliorating adverse outcomes, and the evaluation of programs designed to improve the health of families and children. She is a member of IOM and has served on its Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Health Outcomes and the Committee on Immunization Safety Review.
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Previous projects at the NRC include a study of behavioral modeling and simulation, a study of staffing standards for aviation safety inspectors at the Federal Aviation Administration, studies of Social Security disability determination for individuals with visual and hearing impairments, and workshops on technology for adaptive aging and on decision making in older adults. She has also done work for a previous employer on vision requirements for commercial drivers and on commercial driver fatigue, as well as many years of other work on human performance and training.
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She has a particular interest in the professional development of those working in early childhood settings and its relation to quality and to child outcomes. With respect to the policy context, she has studied the use of funding from the Child Care and Development Fund to improve child care quality, state initiatives to improve children's school readiness, and impacts on children of different welfare reform policies.
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