The Development of Children and AdolescentsPenny Hauser Cram is a professor at Boston College in the Lynch School of Education. She received her Ed. D. in Human Development from Harvard University in 1983 and her research focuses on children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and children and adolescents living in poverty. Kevin Nugent is Professor of Children, Families and Schools at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has been on the faculty there since 1986. He