Walter S. Gilliam
Research Fellow, NIEER, Yale University Child Study Center

Walter Gilliam is a psychologist and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale University Child Study Center and is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale Bush Center on Child Development and Social Policy. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky in School Psychology, with a formal specialization in young child development and preschool psychological services. Before joining the faculty at Yale, he completed two years of clinical internship and postdoctoral training in child clinical psychology and two additional years of postdoctoral training in child development research at Yale. Dr Gilliam's research involves studying state variations in prekindergarten service delivery and the impact of early childhood education programs. Over the past few years, Dr. Gilliam has led national surveys of state-funded prekindergarten administrators and was the lead author on a critical meta-analysis of the impacts of these programs. He is active in prekindergarten issues at the local, state, and national level and has provided numerous presentations and testimony on early childhood education and state-level quality enhancement efforts. He works closely on various projects with the Connecticut Department of Education and the Connecticut Commission on Children. He is a fellow with the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and was a technical advisor for Editorial Projects in Education Week's Quality Counts 2002, focusing on state involvement in prekindergarten and other preschool initiatives. He has published over a dozen scholarly articles and chapters on state-funded prekindergarten programs, Head Start, child care, and developmental assessment of young children.

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