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Executive Summary

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Scaling Up

Critical Questions

Action Agenda

Appendix

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and The College Board for their generous support of the conference. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the funding organizations. We especially thank Sylvia A. Rosenfield, PhD, for her numerous efforts as conference organizer and chair and as co-editor of the conference proceedings, along with Gwendolyn P. Keita, PhD. We especially recognize the conference planning committee for the time and energy they devoted to planning the conference and reviewing the proceedings. Members of the planning committee include: Dorothy W. Cantor, PsyD, Anthony W. Jackson, PhD, Janis V. Sanchez-Hucles, PhD, Seymour B. Sarason, PhD, Samuel C. Stringfield, PhD, and Abraham H. Wandersman, PhD. We also would like to thank all of the conference presenters and participants (an alphabetical listing is available in the Appendix) for their many contributions to making the program a success and, in particular, Congressman Thomas C. Sawyer for delivering the keynote address and Deanna Burney, PhD, Susan Klein, EdD, Mr. William Modzeleski, and Rhona S. Weinstein, PhD, for providing input on previous drafts of the proceedings. Other individuals who were instrumental in the preparation of the conference proceedings include Rebecca Clay, Joanne Zaslow, William Coltellaro and staff in the Women's Programs Office.

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