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Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action
A Festschrift in Honor of Edward Zigler
March 30-31, 2003
Georgetown University Conference Center
Washington, DC, USA

The agenda for the conference is included in its entirety below. Links are provided to proceedings and talk information when possible. All materials are in pdf format.

Sunday, March 30 , 2003

3:00 - 3:30
Welcome & Introduction
J. Lawrence Aber, Deborah Phillips

3:00 - 5:30
Session 1. Making History:
Child Development and Social Policy

Child development research and public policy: History through a personal lens.
Deborah Phillips & Sally Styfco

Policy looking to research. Olivia Golden

Advocacy: Balancing the roles of researcher and advocate. Janice Gruendel

Data in a democracy: The evolving role of evaluation in policy and program development. Kathleen McCartney & Heather Weiss

Session Chair: Ruby Takanishi
Discussant: Jack Calhoun

6:15 - 7:30
Reception

Kurt Salzinger
Executive Director for Science, APA

Robert Sternberg
President, APA

Toast by Richard C. Levin
President, Yale University

Read by Peter Salovey
Dean of Graduate School, Yale University

Ed Zigler Accepts Award

7:30 - 9:00
Dinner

Speakers:

Scott Zigler
Director, Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Harvard University

John Brademas
President Emeritus, New York University

Julius Richmond
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy Emeritus, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

A Message from Congress

Monday, March 31 , 2003

8:30 - 10:00
Session 2. Ensuring Good Beginnings for all Children

Beyond baby steps: Promoting the growth and development of U.S. child care policy.
Susan Muenchow & Katherine Marsland

Visions of universal pre-kindergarten.
W . Steven Barnett, Kirsty Brown, Matia Finn-Stevenson & Christopher Henrich

Promoting a successful school transition for low-income children. Deborah Stipek & Kenji Hakuta

Forty years of research knowledge and use: From Head Start to Early Head Start and beyond. John M. Love, Rachel Chazan-Cohen & Helen Raikes

Session Chair: Barbara Bowman
Discussants: Joan Lombardi and Sarah Greene

11:00 - 1:00
Session 3. Addressing the Needs of the Most Vulnerable Children and Families

Poverty and child development: New perspectives on a defining issue. J. Lawrence Aber, Stephanie M. Jones & C. Cybele Raver

Intervention and policy implications of research on neurobiological functioning in maltreated children. Dante Cicchetti

The sexually mature teen as whole person: New directions in prevention and intervention for teen pregnancy and parenthood. Joseph P. Allen, Victoria Seitz & Nancy Apfel

Children in foster care. Ellen Pinderhughes, Brenda Jones Harden & Amanda Schweder

Session Chair: Robert C. Granger
Discussant: Hiro Yoshikawa

1:00 - 2:00
Lunch

Speakers:

Wade F. Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

James Gallagher, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, University of North Carolina

Harold W. Stevenson, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan (Letter read by John W. Hagen, Executive Officer, Society for Research in Child Development)

Sheldon H. White, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, Harvard University