The Edward Zigler Center
in Child Development and
Social Policy

Welcome and thank you for visiting the Zigler Center Website.

In addition to reading background information (including mission and history), visitors can read about the people associated with our center, and access information on our training program and lecture series that are ongoing at Yale University. Each year at the Zigler Center our faculty and fellows are active in several research and policy projects. Activities also include writing our annual report, producing several policy-relevant publications, providing interviews for popular media, giving testimony at governmental proceedings, and providing support and technical assistance to a network of over 1300 public schools nationwide through the Center’s School of the 21st Century program.

For information on giving donations to assist the Zigler Center and its mission, you can read information on our Contributing to the Zigler Center page.

News & Events

Netcasts!

Audio netcasts of the Zigler Center lecture series are being posted on the Yale Office of Public Affairs Netcasts web site! The netcasts are shorter versions of the lectures presented in the series.

Our first Netcast has been posted. To listen to Beverly Falk speak on "Teaching the Way Children Learn", click here.

Edward Zigler awarded APA's highest honor!

Ed Zigler was awarded the APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology at the annual APA Convention in August.

Sandra Bishop-Josef has been elected President of the American Psychological Association's Division 37 (Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice).

Zigler Center book wins prestigious international award!

A Vision for Universal Preschool Education, by Zigler, Gilliam and Jones has won the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education

For more information see our news and events page.

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"[If parents don't think in advance about what privilege they'd take away from an unruly child,] you'll hear yourself saying something like...'even though you're only 3 years old, I'm telling you right now that you are not going to your prom when you're in high school!'" Alan Kazdin, New Haven Register, Aug. 3, 2008.

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A follow-up report on preschool expulsion was released on January 10, 2008.

For more news, see our news and events page.

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Lecture Series

Our lecture series is free and open to the public. It meets most Fridays during the academic year from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm., in WLH 116 (100 Wall St.). You can download our current lecture series schedule or visit our lecture training page for more information.

The next talk in our lecture series is on Friday, Dec. 5 Kimberly Schonert-Reichl will speak on The School-based Promotion of Children's Social and Emotional Competence: Delimiting Processes and Mechanisms .

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Zigler Alumni News

MegaSkills ®, a program developed by Zigler Center alumna Dorothy Rich, was recently honored by Congressman Michael N. Castle of Delaware. Click here for more information.