Priscilla Little has been working in the education arena and conducting educational research for over twenty years. She is currently an independent consultant; her clients include national education research firms, state education agencies, nonprofits, and private foundations. Formerly with the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP), she has spear-headed its efforts to promote effective education policies and practices to support children’s learning and development through a holistic, integrated approach to learning in- and out-of-school. In her capacity as the Core Area Director for HFRP's Out-of-School Time (OST) research and evaluation work, she led research teams to investigate policy-relevant OST issues such as improving participation, addressing program quality, building OST systems, and supporting out-of-school learning partnerships. She received her undergraduate degree in music history and theory from Smith College, and her master’s degree from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study at Tufts University, where she continued with doctoral studies.
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