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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are indebted to many for making this research possible. First and foremost, we thank the dedicated directors and staff of the 17 Early Head Start programs who participated in the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project from 1996 through 2001. Their commitment to serving their communities and meeting the needs of their families with infants and toddlers inspired us to conduct the rigorous research their programs deserved. We also owe incalculable gratitude to the hundreds of anonymous parents and their child care providers who allowed us to conduct the interviews and observations that enabled us to address questions of crucial policy importance to Early Head Start and related programs.
The findings reported here are based on research conducted as part of the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under contract 105-95-1936 to Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, and Columbia University’s Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, in conjunction with the Early Head Start Research Consortium. The Consortium consists of representatives from 17 programs participating in the evaluation, 15 local research teams, the evaluation contractors, and ACF. Research institutions in the Consortium (and principal researchers for conducting this research through 36 months of age) include ACF (Rachel Chazan Cohen, Judith Jerald, Esther Kresh, Helen Raikes, and Louisa Tarullo); Catholic University of America (Michaela Farber, Harriet Liebow, Nancy Taylor, Elizabeth Timberlake, and Shavaun Wall); Columbia University (Lisa Berlin, Christy Brady-Smith, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Allison Sidle Fuligni); Harvard University (Catherine Ayoub, Barbara Alexander Pan, and Catherine Snow); Iowa State University (Dee Draper, Gayle Luze, Susan McBride, Carla Peterson); Mathematica Policy Research (Kimberly Boller, Jill Constantine, Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Diane Paulsell, Christine Ross, Peter Schochet, Susan Sprachman, Cheri Vogel, and Welmoet van Kammen); Medical University of South Carolina (Richard Faldowski, Gui-Young Hong, and Susan Pickrel); Michigan State University (Hiram Fitzgerald, Tom Reischl, and Rachel Schiffman); New York University (Mark Spellmann and Catherine Tamis-LeMonda); University of Arkansas (Robert Bradley, Richard Clubb, Andrea Hart, Mark Swanson, and Leanne Whiteside-Mansell); University of California, Los Angeles (Carollee Howes and Claire Hamilton); University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Robert Emde, Jon Korfmacher, JoAnn Robinson, Paul Spicer, and Norman Watt); University of Kansas (Jane Atwater, Judith Carta; and Jean Ann Summers); University of Missouri-Columbia (Mark Fine, Jean Ispa, and Kathy Thornburg); University of Pittsburgh (Beth Green, Carol McAllister, and Robert McCall); University of Washington School of Education (Eduardo Armijo and Joseph Stowitschek); University of Washington School of Nursing (Kathryn Barnard and Susan Spieker), and Utah State University (Lisa Boyce, Gina Cook, Catherine Callow-Heusser, and Lori Roggman).
We received diligent programming and analysis support from Miriam Loewenberg and Xiaofan Sun. Several of our Mathematica colleagues provided insightful comments on earlier drafts. We thank Peter Schochet and Ellen Kisker for their careful reviews of earlier drafts. For editing and producing the report, we are grateful to Roy Grisham, Jane Nelson, and Bill Garrett.
We are particularly grateful to Judith Jerald, Early Head Start coordinator in the Head Start Bureau, for her guidance, to Michele Plutro, also of the Head Start Bureau, for her careful review of an earlier draft, and to the staff of the Child Care Bureau in the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (Shannon Christian, Stephanie Currenton, Pia Divine, Ivelisse Martinez-Beck, and Karen Tvedt) for their insightful comments on an earlier draft report. Finally, the authors wish to thank the Consortium members who reviewed and commented on earlier drafts, and in particular members of the Early Head Start Consortium Child Care Working Group. Individuals who deserve special thanks include Rachel Chazan Cohen and Louisa Tarullo of ACF; Carollee Howes, UCLA; and Susan Spieker, University of Washington.
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