问题: 你有丰富的经验做澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究在儿童早期政策上,早期教育和照顾孩子,等等。是什么让你来波士顿大学做这项澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究的？

DeMeo Cook: CEED在早期儿童政策方面做着非常有趣的工作，重点是公平，这也是吸引我加入CEED和BU的原因。I’m the project director for an exciting project—the Multnomah County Preschool for All Research & Evaluation Partnership—and am working closely with the principal investigator, Stephanie Curenton. 我们正在与俄勒冈州的一个县合作，该县正在启动一个新的全民免费学前教育项目，名为全民学前教育，面向该县所有三岁和四岁的孩子。

问题: 你的澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究兴趣是什么？它们如何影响你目前在CEED的工作？

DeMeo Cook: I’m interested in early childhood education because it has the potential to set children and families up for success in school and in life. We have decades and decades of research about the importance of early learning experiences for children and their families, and the supports they need in the early years. 我的一些工作可以追溯到婴儿期和蹒跚学步的时候，考虑到非常年轻的时候，一直到幼儿园和小学早期的过渡时期。我曾与学区、当地社区以及各州合作，进行学前教育的澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究和评估。For example, I worked with Somerville Public Schools in Massachusetts to better understand how families make decisions around early education and care in the community. I’ve also done some research with the state of Vermont as they’ve been rolling out their universal preschool program in their state, too. 这启发了我现在在摩特诺玛县为CEED所做的工作。

问题: 你还有什么与你现在的工作相关的经历吗？

DeMeo Cook：在我从事澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究工作之前，我从事政策倡导工作，重点关注马萨诸塞州早期儿童教育政策的基层支持。在我意识到系统层面的工作才是我的兴趣所在之前，我曾想过我会成为一名澳门威尼斯人注册网站。我从大学的基础教育专业开始，整个大学期间都在一个早期教育项目中担任助教。通过担任早期教育项目的志愿者和董事会成员，我一直与课堂保持着联系。

问题: 你的工作如何促进公平和包容，包括种族正义和社会经济正义？

DeMeo Cook: A lot of my research has been thinking broadly about access to preschool and early learning opportunities—making sure there’s equitable access and that families can access the resources and learning opportunities that they need within their communities. That’s a universal perspective. I’ve also done work to support families with low incomes, especially families that attend Head Start. I have a whole set of work on the transition to kindergarten from Head Start. I also have work on the experiences of families who are in the two-generation Early Head Start program—which focuses on infants and toddlers. We need to have universal equitable access, but we also need to support the unique needs of specific children and families.

CEED is very focused on equitable access to these experiences from a racial-equity perspective, making sure that families and children are getting equitable experiences during the early years. That was a big draw for me as far as coming to CEED, to get an opportunity to really think about these early experiences and opportunities and make sure an equity perspective is embedded in all the work we do.