Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Ken Apfel is the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget at the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Apfel has had extensive experience working on Capitol Hill, where he served as Senator Bill Bradley's Legislative Director and as a Staff Member of the U.S. Budget Committee. Previous to his career on the Hill, Ken Apfel has worked in a variety of human services capacities, as a caseworker in a welfare office, a rehabilitation counselor in a state hospital, and a planner in a community health center.
Jane C. Baird is Education Counsel for the Republican Staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor. Prior to her current position, Ms. Baird was the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 1979-1984, Ms. Baird served as a Legislative Aide for the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Mary Jo Bane is the Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services. Before joining the Administration, Dr. Bane served as the Commissioner and Executive Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. Previously, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Planning and Budget Analysis, U.S. Department of Education. In addition to her work in public service, Professor Bane served as Director of the Malcolm Weiner Center on Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University where she was a Malcolm Weiner Professor of Social Policy.
Kimberly Barnes-O'Connor is the Children's Policy Coordinator for the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Minority Staff and works for the ranking Republican member of the Committee, Senator Nancy Landon Kassenbaum. Prior to joining Senator Kassenbaum's personal staff, Ms. Barnes-O'Connor was the Acting State Coordinator of the Connecticut Child Welfare Reform Initiative. Ms. Barnes-O'Connor has had extensive experience in child welfare and juvenile justice. She began her career as a foster care and delinquency caseworker and has since managed a number of innovative public and community-based programs in several states.
Douglas J. Besharov is a lawyer and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He served as the administrator of the AEI/White House Working Seminar on Integrated Services for Children and Families. He was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect from 1975 to 1979. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and a visiting professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. His most recent book is Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned.
Helen Blank is Director of Child Care at the Children's Defense Fund, where she led a large-scale, successful effort to pass the first comprehensive federal child care legislation since World War II. She has focused a great deal of her efforts on strengthening both federal child care and Head Start policies. In addition, she provides technical assistance to states and policy leaders on early childhood development issues. Prior to joining the Children's Defense Fund, Ms. Blank worked at the Child Welfare League of America, and helped to improve and expand participation in federal food programs serving low-income children with the National Child Nutrition project and the Community Nutrition Institute.
Joanne P. Brady is the Associate Director of the Family, School and Community Division of the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, where she has played a critical role in the creation of the New England Resource Access Project. Ms. Brady has spent many years designing technical assistance packages for Head Start and public school systems. Before joining EDC, Ms. Brady served at the Coordinator for Child Development Services in Bangor, Maine, where she designed and implemented an interagency program for children and families.
Patricia Cole is a Professional Staff Member with the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, and a Senior Advisor on children and family policy to its chairman, Senator Christopher Dodd. Ms. Cole's legislative responsibilities include early childhood programs, including Head Start, child support, family support and child welfare issues. Ms. Cole played a major role in the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1990. Prior to joining the Subcommittee staff, Ms. Cole served as a Senior Evaluator for welfare and poverty policy at the U.S. General Accounting Office.
Lee Cowen is the Budget Analyst and Professional Staff Member for the Republican Staff of the U.S. House of Representatives' Education and Labor Committee. Mr. Cowen is responsible for all budget and appropriations issues that affect Committee programs, as well as most social service programs within the jurisdiction of the Committee, including Head Start. Prior to his current position, Mr. Cowen was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn.
Dwayne A. Crompton is the executive director of KCMC Child Development Corporation, a multifaceted child-care agency serving children and families in Kansas City, Missouri. KCMC administers the Head Start Project in a three-county area, the Child and Adult Care Food Program in 20 counties and operates two comprehensive child-development centers that provide full-day Head Start services. Before heading up KCMC, Mr. Crompton served as a preschool and elementary teacher and a public school administrator. Mr. Crompton is the chairman of the Black Caucus of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and is frequently called upon to give expert testimony on child-care legislation.
Ada E. Deer is the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior. Until recently, Ms. Deer served as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and American Indian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Deer has served as the legislative liaison for the National American Rights Fund and chair of the Menominee Restoration Committee as well as numerous posts responsible for the improved welfare of Native American peoples.
David T. Eliwood is the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, where he serves as the Secretary's principal advisor for the formulation and analysis of policy. Dr. Ellwood, a labor economist, came to HHS from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where, since 1992, he had served as Academic Dean, Co-director of the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy and Malcolm Weiner Professor of Public Policy. Dr. Ellwood has written several books and numerous articles on welfare, teen-age unemployment and family poverty.
Harley Frankel directed the Head Start and Child Development Bureau during the 1970s. He also was an advocate for improved quality and the expansion of Head Start as a Senior Specialist with the Children's Defense Fund. Mr. Frankel was Deputy Director of the White House Personnel Office and State Budget Director of Colorado. In the private sector, he has been a Vice-President of Warner Amex Cable Communications and Executive Vice-President for both the Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Clippers. He recently chaired a Commission on Public School Reform in the city of Los Angeles.
William A. Galston is the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. He is on leave from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is a professor at the School of Public Affairs and a Senior Research Scholar at the University's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Dr. Galston is the author of five books and numerous articles on political philosophy, American politics and public policy. A former advisor to then Governor Bill Clinton and Senator Al Gore Jr., Dr. Galston's responsibilities included tracking the Head Start Program for the White House.
Yolanda Garcia is the Director of the Children's Services Department of the Santa Clara County Office of Education, where she is responsible for a large urban/rural program that serves 2,500 children in Head Start, School-Age Child Care, State Preschool, and general child care. Ms. Garcia has contributed to professional development programs for the regional and National Head Start Associations, and the State Department of Education. Ms. Garcia has served in a variety of roles which include preschool teacher, social worker, administrator, policy analyst, program evaluator and college instructor.
Olivia Golden is the Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to coming to HHS, Dr. Golden served as the Director of Programs and Policy for the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for policy development, advocacy, research, data analysis, and writing about a variety of children and family issues. Prior to that, she served as Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she focused her research on child and family policy and public management. From 1983-1985, Dr. Golden served as the Budget Director for the Executive Office of Human Services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is the author of a recently published book, Poor Children and Welfare Reform (Auburn House Press, 1992), and several papers and articles. Her research has focused on the way services work for real people, including issues of innovation, collaboration and effective service delivery for children and families.
Sarah Greene is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Head Start Association. Ms. Greene has held a host of positions in the Head Start community including President of the National Head Start Association, Director of a Head Start program, Executive Director of Manatee Opportunity Council and Head Start, Education Coordinator and classroom teacher. She played a critical role in drafting the Head Start reauthorization bill and has testified before Congress on behalf of the Head Start Program.
Ronald D. Herndon is President of the National Head Start Association and Director of Albina Head Start, a comprehensive early childhood program in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Herndon is active in advocacy efforts to improve public education in Portland. He helped organize and is Executive Director of the National Association for Schools of Excellence, an organization representing public school principals who have successfully educated low income children in a variety of settings and institutions.
Judith E. Heumann was sworn in as President Clinton's Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services on June 29, 1993 in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1975-1982, Ms. Heumann was deputy director and ran the world's first independent living center in Berkeley, CA, and for ten years was vice president of the World Institute on Disability (WID), which she co-founded in 1983. From 1982- 1983, Ms. Heumann was a special assistant to the Executive Director of the California State Department of Rehabilitation, a position she was appointed to by former Governor Jerry Brown. Previously, Ms. Heumann served on U.S. Senator Harrison Williams's staff, and helped develop legislation that became the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Later, she helped draft federal and state legislation that led to the creation of more than 200 independent living centers nationwide. As Assistant Secretary, Ms. Heumann manages a budget of over $5.25 billion and oversees the Office of Special Education Programs, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Michael Iskowitz is the Chief Counsel for Poverty, Disability, and Family Policy for the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources chaired by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Mr. Iskowitz is responsible for policy research and development, speech writing, and drafting and securing passage of legislative initiatives such as the Head Start Quality and Improvement Act, Comprehensive Services for Youth Act, Maternal and Early Childhood Health Act, Ryan White AIDS CARE Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, McKinney Homelessness Assistance Act, and the National Economic Community Partnership Act. Mr. Iskowitz is a clinical psychologist and previously worked in a variety of community-based programs serving low-income children and families.
Judith E. Jones is the Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty and Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. She also directs the National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's initiative, Free to Grow: Head Start Partner ships to Promote Substance-free Communities. Previously, Professor Jones served as Deputy Director for the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University, where she designed and managed a broad range of clinical and educational programs that focused on community health strategies for underserved low income children and adolescents. Professor Jones serves on numerous boards and committees including the Carnegie Corporation's Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children and the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid.
Sharon Lynn Kagan is Senior Associate at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. Her research has focused on child care, restructuring schools, collaboration in early care and education, and parent and family support. She is the author of more than 100 articles and editor or co-editor of ten volumes. Dr. Kagan is a former member of the Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Family Resource Coalition, Vice-Chairperson of the Board of the Institute for Responsive Education, and Chairperson of the National Education Goals Technical Planning Group on readiness.
Elaine C. Kamarck is Vice President Gore's Senior Advisor. Prior to joining the Administration, Dr. Kamarck served as a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and Co-Director of the Progressive Foundation in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for publications and programs in political science, family and children and social welfare policy. Dr. Kamarck has served as an advisor to several presidential campaigns and has contributed to Newsday and the Los Angeles Times as a regular columnist.
Avis LaVelle is the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. As Assistant Secretary, Ms. LaVelle is the principal public affairs adviser to the secretary, participates in major decision making affecting HITS policy and programs, and oversees the public education and outreach efforts for all HITS operations with special emphasis on initiatives from the Secretary's office. Prior to joining the Administration, Ms. LaVelle served as the National Press Secretary in Arkansas for Governor Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. A native of Chicago, Ms. LaVelle was formerly Press Secretary for Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley after first acting as campaign press secretary in his December 1988 bid for election. Ms. LaVelle has had extensive experience in media where she has served as a radio and television news reporter. Ms. LaVelle is a former member of the Chicago area Task Force on Black Adoptions.
Alan G. Lopatin is the General Counsel for the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to joining the Education and Labor Committee, Mr. Lopatin served as Deputy General counsel for civil service and budget matters with the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Previously, Mr. Lopatin worked on the U.S. House Committee on the Budget as Deputy Chief Counsel. Before joining the Hill, Mr. Lopatin served as an Analyst with Peter D. Hart Research Associates during the 1979-1980 election cycle. During the recent Presidential Transition period, Mr. Lopatin served as a member of the Education/Labor Transition cluster, preparing materials for the incoming Clinton Administration.
Stephanie Johnson Monroe is a 13 year veteran of Capitol Hill. She has served the last four of those years as Chief Counsel and Minority Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism, which has primary responsibility for authorizing and overseeing a variety of children and family programs, including Head Start. A 1985 graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, Mrs. Monroe was a recipient of an American Jurisprudence Award. She and her husband Donald have one child, James, age 2, and reside in Sterling, VA.
Evelyn K. Moore is the Executive Director and Founder of the National Black Child Development Institute, a national network of 40 affiliates in 23 states which work to improve the quality of life for African American children and their families. Before founding the Institute, Ms. Moore worked as a Special Assistant to Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ms. Moore currently serves on the Boards of the National Council of Jewish Women Center for the Child, Child Trends, and Child Care Action Council. She works as a consultant to the Office of Education in addition to numerous philanthropic organizations.
Genoveva P. Morales is the President of the National Migrant Head Start Director's Association and serves as the Migrant Head Start Director for the Washington State Migrant Council. Ms. Morales has served the migrant community in many roles including Special Services Director and Chapter I Program Director. In addition to her work with migrant and seasonal farm workers, Ms. Morales has held various positions in the academic setting serving as a Research Program Assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio, as a financial aid counselor at the University of Washington and as an academic counselor at Eastern Washington University and at the Yakima Valley Community College Upward Bound Program.
Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. is director of the Entrepreneurial Studies Center and associate professor in business economics in the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Professor Osborne also serves as faculty director of the Head Start/Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program conducted at UCLA. In addition to serving in a number of administrative posts at UCLA, including chairman of the business economics group and associate dean and director of the MBA program, Dr. Osborne spent two years at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC while an Economic Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a director of several public companies, including the Times Mirror Company, Nordstrom Inc., and First Interstate Bank of California and serves on the Council of Economic Advisors to Governor Pete Wilson, of California.
Thomas W. Payzant is the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Dr. Payzant served as the Superintendent of San Diego City Schools for the previous decade. Dr. Payzant has worked for various school districts as a Superintendent including Springfield, Pennsylvania, Eugene, Oregon and Oklahoma City Public Schools. In addition to his work with school districts, Dr. Payzant has been a member and past president of the Large City Schools Superintendents, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Council for Basic Education and Vice Chair of the Trustees of the College Board.
Marshall Plummer is the Vice President of the Navajo Nation, the largest existing Native American tribe. Trained as a social worker, Mr. Plummer has served in a variety of positions within the Navajo Nation including work as a Council Delegate to the Navajo Nation Council, Director of Community Health Development in the Division of Health and Improvement Services and Director of Community Development and Research in the Ramah Navajo School Board. Mr. Plummer has a particular interest in Native American education where he has served as Executive Director of A School for Me Inc., which provides residential academic and vocational programs to developmentally disabled citizens of the Navajo Nation.
Kelly Reali is a Head Start Parent of Utica Head Start Children and Families, Utica, N.Y. She has been a Policy Council member for two years and Region II Board Member as assistant treasurer. Ms. Reali is a NHSA Board Member and past President of NYSHSA Parent Affiliation. She is currently 2nd Vice President of the NYSHSA Overall Board. Ms. Reali also sits on the Head Start/NYS Collaborate Project (Healthcare/Medicaid and Welfare Reform), and the State Associate Parent Advisory Committee, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Training. Head Start has made me what I am today!
Julius B. Richmond, M.D. is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus at Harvard University Medical School. Dr. Richmond, trained in psychiatry and pediatrics, was the first person to hold the positions of Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General. Dr. Richmond, together with his colleague Dr. Bettye Caldwell, designed one of the early programs for low-income preschoolers that integrated health and school readiness programs, which later became the model for Head Start, of which Dr. Richmond was the first Director in 1965 and 1966. Dr. Richmond has been awarded numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine's Gustav 0. Lienhard award, which recognizes "outstanding achievement in improving personal health care services in the United States."
Shirley S. Sagawa is Executive Vice President of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the newly created federal agency charged with implementing the President's National Service Program. She previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she was responsible for advising the First Lady on children's issues including Head Start. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Ms. Sagawa was employed by the National Women's Law Center as the Senior Counsel and Director of the Family and Youth Policy and by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee as Chief Counsel for Youth Policy working on early childhood development and education issues. Ms. Sagawa was appointed by President Bush to serve on the Board of Directors of the Commission on National and Community Service, where she is currently a Vice-Chairperson.
Isabel Sawhill is the Associate Director for Human Resources at the Office of Management and Budget, where she oversees the Departments of Labor, Education and Veterans affairs. She also has responsibility for the welfare and social insurance programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the nutrition programs of the Department of Agriculture. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Ms. Sawhill was a Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Lisbeth B. Schorr is Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University, a member of the Harvard University Working Group on Early Life, and Director of the Harvard University Project on Effective Services. Ms. Schorr's 1988 book, Within Our Reach.' Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, analyzed social programs that have succeeded in improving the life prospects of disadvantaged children. Ms. Schorr is currently pursuing the implications of her findings for the large-scale implementation of effective programs. Previously, Ms. Schorr helped establish the health division of the Children's Defense Fund and directed the health activities of the O.E.O. 's Community Action Program.
Thomas W. Schultz is the Project Director for Early Childhood Services for the National Association of State Boards of Education. Dr. Schultz has co-authored two influential reports: Right from the Start, offering recommendations to public schools in educating 4-8-year-old students, and Caring Communities, providing strategies for assuring that all children enter school ready to learn. Dr. Schultz currently directs a national field research project on exemplary early childhood and family support programs for the U.S. Department of Education.
Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe is a Professor of Education and Social Policy in the Human Development and Social Policy Program in the School of Education and Social Policy, Professor of African American Studies, and Fellow, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Slaughter-Defoe's research and writing center on the study of the relationship between parental socialization and children's school-related behavior and achievement, and have included research into the parent involvement component of Head Start. Prior to publishing Visible now: Blacks in private schools and Black children and poverty: A developmental perspective, Dr. Slaughter- Defoe served as a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development. In 1989-1990, Dr. Slaughter-Defoe served on the newly-appointed ACYF Panel for the Head Start Evaluation Design Project, and from 1990-1993 on the ACYF Panel to Implement the 1990 Blueprint Report. She has been designated by the Committee on Public Interest Awards of the American Psychological Association to receive the 1993 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy.
Marshall S. Smith is the Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to accepting this position, Dr. Smith was Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he was also the director of the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. He was also the Chief of Staff to the first Secretary of Education. Professor Smith has served as an advisor to the National Education Goals Panel and is a member of the National Academy of Education.
Patricia F. Sullivan is a Senior Research Analyst for the National Governor's Association, Committee on Human Resources where she is responsible for education policy development and monitoring education legislation. Formerly the Assistant Director for Governmental Relations at the Career College Association and Staff Assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Post secondary Education, Ms. Sullivan has worked in education policy at the state and national level. Prior to her work on the Education and Labor Committee, Ms. Sullivan served asa policy coordinator for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Lester H. Sweeting is Staff Director and Counsel to the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Human Resources. A tax attorney by training, Mr. Sweeting joined the Internal Revenue Service in 1967 and held a variety of increasingly responsible positions in the IRS' International Program from Estate Tax Attorney to Internal Revenue Representative in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Upon his return from Brazil in 1987, Mr. Sweeting became the Staff Director of the Commissioner's Executive Study of the Civil Tax Penalties. He then worked in the IRS Legislative Affairs Division until assuming his present position in February of this year.
Richard J. Tarplin is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Tarplin assists in a broad range of policy and management functions related to developing and administering the department's legislative program and congressional liaison activities. Prior to serving at HHS, Mr. Tarplin served as Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, Committee on Labor and Human Resources and as a Legislative Assistant to former Representative Leon Panetta.
Helen H. Taylor is Executive Director of the National Child Day Care Association, Inc., which operates 16 preschool and 5 before and after school centers in Washington, D.C. Ms. Taylor is also the Chairperson of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Development. Ms. Taylor has 27 years of experience in designing and administering large, comprehensive child development projects, including Head Start, Model Cities, and locally funded child care programs. Ms. Taylor is currently a member of the governing board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Valora Washington is Vice President-program for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, where she provides administrative leadership to a range of key program areas including education, youth, families and neighborhoods, and program evaluation. Prior to joining the Kellogg Foundation, Dr. Washington was Vice President and Professor at Antioch College in Ohio. Dr. Washington has published and co-authored four books and over 40 journal articles on early child development and education. She serves as Secretary to the National Association for the Education of Young Children and as a member of the Governor of Michigan's 2000 Commission.
Sheldon H. White is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University whose research focuses on children's learning and cognitive development as well as programs and policies that serve young children. Professor White has worked on the design or evaluation of a number of major programs for children including Head Start, Sesame Street, Follow Through, and Title I programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Professor White recently served as Chairman for the Head Start Research and Advisory Panel for Implementing the Blueprint with the Administration for Children, Youth and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Barbara A. Willer is the Public Affairs Director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals with more than 85,000 members. Dr. Willer coordinates NAEYC's public policy and public education efforts to promote broad understanding and support for high-quality early childhood programs. NAEYC's primary spokesperson with the media and public policy officials, Dr. Willer's efforts are also directed at increasing the effectiveness of NAEYC Affiliate Groups and the members in/advocating for high-quality early childhood services. Dr. Willer has worked as a Preschool Teacher and VISTA volunteer in Newport, Kentucky.
Edward Zigler is the Sterling Professor of Psychology, head of the psychology section of the Child Study Center and director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. He is the author and co-author or editor of numerous scholarly publications and has conducted extensive investigations on topics related to normal child development, as well as psychopathology and mental retardation. Dr. Zigler served as Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau and first Director of the Office of Child Development, now the Administration on Children, Youth and Families. He was one of the original planners of Project Head Start. Dr. Zigler regularly testifies as an expert witness before congressional committees, and has served as a consultant to a number of cabinet rank officers.
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