Child development research and public policy : triumphs and setbacks on the way to maturity / Deborah A. Phillips and Sally J. Styfco
Policy looking to research / Olivia Golden
Bridging the gap between research and child policy change : the role of strategic communications in policy advocacy / Janice Gruendel and J. Lawrence Aber
Data for a democracy : the evolving role of evaluation in policy and program development / Kathleen McCartney and Heather B. Weiss
Forty years of research knowledge and use : from Head Start to Early Head Start and beyond / John M. Love, Rachel Chazan-Cohen and Helen Raikes
Beyond baby steps : promoting the growth and development of U.S. child-care policy / Susan Muenchow and Katherine W. Marsland
From visions to systems of universal prekindergarten / W. Steven Barnett, Kirsty C. Brown, Matia Finn-Stevenson and Christopher Henrich
Strategies to ensure that no child starts from behind / Deborah Stipek and Kenji Hakuta
Poverty and child development : new perspectives on a defining issue / J. Lawrence Aber, Stephanie M. Jones and C. Cybele Raver
Intervention and policy implications of research on neurobiological functioning in maltreated children / Dante Cicchetti
The sexually mature teen as a whole person : new directions in prevention and intervention for teen pregnancy and parenthood / Joseph P. Allen, Victoria Seitz and Nancy H. Apfel
Children in foster care / Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Brenda Jones Harden and Amanda E. Guyer
Parent education : lessons inspired by Head Start / LaRue Allen, Anita Sethi, Sheila Smith and Jennifer Astuto
Mental health : a neglected partner in the healthy development of young children / Kathryn Taaffe McLearn, Jane Knitzer and Alice S. Carter
Family support : a force for change / Sharon Lynn Kagan and Bernice Weissbourd
Using the web to disseminate research and affect public policy / Fred Rothbaum, Nancy F. Martland and Sandra J. Bishop-Josef
Epilogue : Combining basic and applied science in constructing sound social policy / Edward F. Zigler.