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Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENCE OF CHILDREN BIRTH TO AGE 8: DEEPENING AND BROADENING THE FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS LARUE ALLEN (Chair), Raymond and Rosalee Weiss Professor of Applied Psychology, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York W. THOMAS BOYCE, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco JOSHUA L. BROWN, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York DOUGLAS H. CLEMENTS, Kennedy Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Research, Practice and Policy, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, Colorado FABIENNE DOUCET, Associate Professor of Education, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York JOHN C. DUBY, Professor of Pediatrics, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Akron Children’s Hospital, Ohio DAVID N. FIGLIO, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois JANA FLEMING, Director, Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy, Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois (through January 2015), Director, Center of Excellence in Early Childhood Development, Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (from February 2015) LISA GUERNSEY, Director, Early Education Initiative and Director, Learning Technologies Project, New America, Washington, DC RON HASKINS, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC JACQUELINE JONES, President and CEO, Foundation for Child Development, New York, New York MARJORIE KOSTELNIK, Dean, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NONIE K. LESAUX, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ELLEN M. MARKMAN, Lewis M. Terman Professor, Department of Psychology, Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California ROLLANDA E. O’CONNOR, Professor, Graduate School of Education,