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

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

The School of the 21st Century National Conference is July 14-16.

The conference will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. For more information and to register, see the 21C web site.

Edward Zigler awarded APA's highest honor!

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

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

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"This study says that those states that wait to start early childhood education until age 4 (the most common preschool age) are making a huge mistake."--Edward Zigler, on a new study of Parents as Teachers, May 29, 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. You can download our current lecture series schedule or visit our lecture training page for more information.

Our lecture series has ended for this academic year. We will resume in the Fall on Friday, September 12

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