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Pages 403-414
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She has served on a variety of professional committees, including the Task Force on Early Childhood Education of the National Association of State Boards of Education, the Panel on Day Care Policy and the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children for the National Research Council, the Leadership Initiative for the National Black Child Development Institute, and the Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education of the Illinois State Board of Education.
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At the National Research Council, she was study director for the Committee on Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Her research interests include instructional practices that facilitate early cognitive development, dynamic assessment of young children, early childhood curriculum development, and parent-child interaction and emergent literacy.
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is a senior program officer at the National Research Council's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and study director for the Committee on Minority Representation in Special Education and for How People Learn: Targeted Report for Teachers. Her interests span issues of education and public policy.
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At the National Research Council, he was a member of the Committee on Strategic Education Research Program Feasibility and of the Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy. His work has focused on the intellectual development and education of young children, particularly poor and minority children.
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from the University of Kansas. Carollee Howes is professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, and was head of the division of educational psychology until 1996.
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from Boston University. Sharon Lynn Kagan is the Virginia and Leonard Marx professor of early childhood and family policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a senior research scientist at Yale University.
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He has served on the boards of directors of the Social Science Research Council and the Spencer Foundation. At the National Research Council, he was a member of the National Advisory Pane]
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Lynn Okagaki is an associate professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. She conducts research on Mexican-American and Asian-American children's school achievement, cultural influences on cognitive development, intelligence and intellectual development, and parental beliefs and family values.
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At the National Research Council, he has served as a member of the Committee on Human Factors, the Committee on the Enhancement of Human Performance, the Committee on Research Opportunities in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Committee on Research Opportunities in Biology. His numerous publications include Contemporary Approaches to Cognitive Psychology (1991, coedited with C
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He has served as director of the Program in Developmental Psychology and as chairman of the University Committee on Child and Family Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and as vice president for academic affairs at the Merrill Palmer Institute. He has conducted research on language acquisition and language disorders, emergent literacy, therapeu
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He served on the National Research Council/ Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Head Start Research.
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