ABSTRACT
Eric Schaps is founder and president of the Developmental Studies Center in Oakland, California. Established in 1980, DSC specializes in designing educational programs and evaluating their effects on children’s academic, ethical, social, and emotional development. The center has a full time staff of sixty; its work has been supported by forty philanthropic foundations and governmental agencies; its in-school and after-school programs have been recognized as exemplary in a number of governmental and other program effectiveness reviews. Dr. Schaps is the author of three books and over sixty book chapters and articles on school change, character education, and preventing problem behaviors. He serves on several boards, including the education advisory board of Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
