Dr. Wu received her bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Beijing Normal University, Master of Arts degree in Preschool Education from University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. in Developmental Studies and Early Childhood Education from UCLA. Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor and Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator in the School of Education at Howard University. Dr. Wu served as a teacher educator in the United States for 20 years. In addition, she also has more than 10 years of teaching experience with young children in China and in the United States. Dr. Wu’s research foci are on social and emotional development of children in China and in the United States, parenting effect on child development, and children adopted from China by American parents.She is also interested in developmentally appropriate curriculum and teaching practice in early childhood education. Dr. Wu taught summer seminars in China regularly since 1996, and she writes extensively for Chinese early childhood education magazines and radio shows since 1998. As a teacher educator, one of Dr. Wu’s goals is to facilitate cultural exchanges hence increase mutual understandings between people in China and in the United States. Dr. Wu has twice received the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad awards to take American teachers to China for cultural studies. She has also received the 2011 Fulbright Specialist Program award to teach in Shaanxi Normal University in China. As a native Chinese, Dr. Wu speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and is familiar with the Chinese culture as well as the educational systems in China.

Author of: Through Children’s Eyes: President Obama and the Future Generation