Research and policymakers alike agree that comprehensive services and parent involvement are essential to prepare children to enter school. In question is whether Head Start will remain a national program for low-income children or if the monies will be given to states so that they can design and administer their own preschool programs. Psychology offers an empirical contribution to the debate

Higher education in the United States was scrutinized and found wanting during the past 25 years. Fundamental questions such as “What is the mission of colleges and universities? Whom do they serve? How should they educate?” are o the table. Radical changes in what psychology considers scholarship were proposed by a task force of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Psychologist with different perspectives comment on the controversial new definition of scholarship in this set of five articles