Susan Gray and Nicholas Hobbs were influential in the development of the Kennedy Center at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, which was designed to include an emphasis on research and training in education and human development. This paper describes Gray's and Hobbs' work and explains how their vision extended to the creation of the Kennedy…

The family unit, as the source of most impact on the development of children, must be again defined as the key system for humanizing children and enhancing child development. (Author/MJB)

This article explores the role of values in social science research and in public policymaking for programs that intervene in the lives of children and their families. A values classification scheme is described that was used in the To Strengthen Families Project. (PP)

Paper based on theoretical notions involving the child-family system, the intervention process, and broader societal concerns; included also are projections of current political, economic, and social realities that threaten future intervention efforts. (Author/CB)

Psychologists comment on another article which, in their view, overemphasizes social, political, and economic issues to the virtual exclusion of the psychological perspective" on educational intervention; the authors are searching for a social psychological model of educational intervention." (Author/SP)