Bruce Fuller
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Bruce Fuller
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
Bruce Fuller is professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the early learning of young children and the diverse institutions that enrich their development. A former director of PACE and researcher at the World Bank, he taught at Harvard University before returning to California and UC Berkeley. He is author of Standardized Childhood and of Organizing Locally. He is working on a book on the history of civic activism and school reform in Los Angeles. Fuller received his PhD in the sociology of education at Stanford University.
updated 2012
Publications by Bruce Fuller
The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children’s Development Nationwide
Young children, at least among those from poor families and within the domains of cognitive growth and school readiness, benefit from exposure to preschool or childcare centers. Carefully controlled experiments, exemplified by the Perry Preschool or…
Ideals, Evidence, and Policy Options
The evidence is quite clear—after a half-century of research—that many children benefit from quality preschooling in terms of cognitive growth. Over 60% of California’s four-year-olds now attend a preschool center at least part-time. Yet enrollment…
Centers and Home Settings that Serve Poor Families
The effects of center-based care on early development, outside of carefully controlled demonstration programs, appear to be positive, if modest, for children from low-income families. But little is known about variation in the quality of centers and…
Promising Benefits, Unequal Access
Parents and policymakers are turning to preschools to better advance the school readiness and broader development of young children. This brief reports on which California children are more likely to gain access to preschool centers—broadly termed…