Penny Hauser-Cram (Ed.D., 1983, Harvard Graduate School of Education) is professor of developmental and educational psychology at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. Her research focuses on longitudinal studies of children and families and on change in children's developmental processes. She is an associate member of the MacArthur Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood. She was a teacher of young children and is author of Early Education in the Public Schools (with D. E. Pierson, D. K. Walker, and T. Tivnan) (1991) and numerous publications on the development of chi...