Dr. Carollee Howes

A Matter of Trust: Attachment Relationships with Other-Than-Mothers

Professor of Education University of California, Los Angeles

Carollee Howes, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Improving Child Care Quality and is a nationally and internationally recognized child care researcher. She is Professor of Education (Psychological Studies in Education Division) at UCLA and has been the Principal Investigator on the National Child Care Staffing Study, The Family and Relative Care Study, the Cost Quality and Outcomes Study, and the Then and Now Study. She is Advisor to the current National Study of Child Care in Low Income Families and the National Head Start Families and Children Experiences and Random Assignment Studies. She also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the National Consortium for the Evaluation of Early Head Start and as Principal Investigator and core leadership council member of the National Center for Development and Learning in Early Childhood. Her research focuses on children's experiences in childcare, their concurrent and long-term outcomes from child care experiences, and efforts to improve child care quality. She has been active in public policy for children and families in the county, state, and nation. She belongs to LA Child Care Policy Round Table. She co-chaired the California State Task Force on School Readiness in 1987-88 and served on the more recent Universal Preschool and California School Readiness Master Plan Task Forces. She served on the 1998-2000 National Research Council Panel on Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education.