National Advisory Board

Our National Advisory Board members provide input on national directions related to early education research and/or policy and on programs and initiatives that we are implementing.

• Juanita Copley, Ph.D., Professor, Emerita, Curriculum and Instruction Department, College of Education: University of Houston, TX
• Robert Dugger, Chair, Advisory Board, Partnership for America's Economic Success, Managing Director of Tudor Investment Corporation
• Ellen Frede, Co-Director, National Institute for Early Education Research Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
• James Heckman, Ph.D., Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Chicago, IL
• Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D., National Center for Children and Families, New York, NY