She conducts research on Mexican-American and Asian-American children’s school achievement, cultural influences on cognitive development, intelligence and intellectual development, and parental beliefs and family values. Her publications include Direc-tors of Development: Influences on the Development of Children’s Thinking (1991, coedited with R.J.Sternberg), and Parenting: An Ecological Perspective (1993, coedited with T.Luster). She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and is a consulting editor for the Early Childhood Research Quarterly. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence of the U.S. Department of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology (1984) from Cornell University.