William T. Gormley Jr. is University Professor at Georgetown University. He is also a Professor of Public Policy and Government and co-director of the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. (CROCUS). Dr. Gormley is the author or coauthor of several books, including Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem (Brookings, 1995), Organizational Report Cards (Harvard University Press, 1999), and Bureaucracy and Democracy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2003, 2007, 2011). His book Voices for Children: Rhetoric and Public Policy was published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2012. Dr. Gormley is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a past president of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Gormley has directed the Oklahoma pre-K project, which has evaluated the state-funded pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He and his research team have documented substantial gains in prereading, prewriting, and premath skills for children enrolled in the school-based pre-K program in Tulsa. These findings have appeared in the Journal of Human Resources, the Policy Studies Journal, Developmental Psychology, the Social Science Quarterly, Child Development, Science, and elsewhere. The successes of Tulsa's pre-K program have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the PBS NewsHour, and the CBS Evening News. At Georgetown, Dr. Gormley served as Interim Dean of Public Policy for two years and was one of the founding members of Georgetown's day-care center, Hoya Kids.
