- Sep 25, 2026
- by Juan Vazquez-Leddon
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
As Head Start changes loom, experts ask what families need
As the federal government weighs the most significant changes to Head Start in nearly two decades, researchers and educators see a chance to learn what children and families in the antipoverty program need most.
More than 80 educators, researchers and policymakers gathered at the Head Start and Early Childhood Education Summit in New York City to discuss the proposed changes and how research can inform the program’s future. The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research hosted
Aadya Singh
Aadya (she/her) is a PhD Psychology (Human Development) student at the Laboratory for Rational Decision Making. Aadya is the graduate team leader for the Health and Medical Decision Making research team. Her interests range across a variety of fields applicable to decision making and science literacy, such as belief-updating, learning, memory, and numeracy. Her theoretical research interest is in testing Bayesian updating principles against the Fuzzy Trace Theory.