Early Childhood

All Points of Compass Represented in Project

By Linda Jacobson — July 12, 2000 1 min read
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The following is a list of investigators involved in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development:

Virginia D. Allhusen, University of California, Irvine

Jay Belsky, Birkbeck College, University of London

Cathryn L. Booth, University of Washington, Seattle

Robert Bradley, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Celia Brownell, University of Pittsburgh

Margaret R. Burchinal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bettye M. Caldwell, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Little Rock

Susan B. Campbell, University of Pittsburgh

Alison Clarke-Stewart, University of California, Irvine

Martha J. Cox, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sarah L. Friedman, project scientist/scientific coordinator, NICHD

Tyler D. Hartwell, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University, Philadelphia

Aletha C. Huston, University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth Jaeger, Temple University, Philadelphia

Deborah Johnson, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Jean F. Kelly, University of Washington, Seattle

Bonnie Knoke, project data coordinator, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Nancy Marshall, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Kathleen McCartney, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Frederick J. Morrison, Loyola University of Chicago

Philip R. Nader, University of California, San Diego

Marion O’Brien, University of Kansas, Lawrence

Margaret Tresch Owen, University of Texas at Dallas

Ross D. Parke, University of California, Riverside

Chris Payne, Western Carolina Center, Morganton, N.C.

Deborah A. Phillips, National Academy of Sciences, Washington

Robert C. Pianta, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Suzanne M. Randolph, University of Maryland, College Park

Wendy Wagner Robeson, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Susan J. Spieker, University of Washington, Seattle

Deborah Lowe Vandell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marsha Weinraub, Temple University, Philadelphia

The 10 data-collection sites are:

Charlottesville, Va.

Irvine, Calif.

Lawrence, Kan.

Little Rock, Ark.

Madison, Wis.

Morganton, N.C.

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Seattle

Wellesley, Mass.

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A version of this article appeared in the July 12, 2000 edition of Education Week as All Points of Compass Represented in Project

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