News & Events

Here you will find upcoming and recent events, public information, as well as book and press releases from the Zigler Center.

Events

Weekly Social Policy Lecture Series

The Zigler Center’s weekly Social Policy Lecture Series meets Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during the academic year. For more information, see our Lecture Series page.

The School of the 21st Century National Conference

The School of the 21 st Century 2008 National Conference was held July 14-16 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. For more information, see the 21C Website.

Zigler Center Renaming Ceremony

On July 25, 2005, a celebration to mark the renaming of the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy to The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy was held. Guest speakers included U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd; U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro; U.S. Rep. John Larson; New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr.; former U.S. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond; Connecticut Education Commissioner Betty Sternberg; and Tim Shriver, chairman of the International Special Olympics. Read the press release, or media coverage of the event from the New Haven Register and Medicine@Yale.

Public Information

Recent Interviews:

Finding Blooms Amid the Ashes, Linda Mayes, Medicine@Yale, July/August 2008

Physician at Work John Leventhal, Yale Practice, February 2008

Giving Intervention a Head Start A Conversation with Edward Zigler Educational Leadership, October 2007

Opinion Essays:

The Sweet and Lowdown on Sugar written by Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle for The New York Times

Popular Media Articles:

TV's 'Barney' Is Far From Extinct, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008 with quote from Dorothy Singer, Zigler Center faculty.

'Father' of Head Start Says It's Not Lived Up to Potenial, The Advocate (LA), March 26, 2008, with quotes from Edward Zigler, Zigler Center Director, Emeritus.

Restaurants as Obesity Cops Doesn't Sit Well, USA Today, February 5, 2008, with quote from Kelly Brownell, Zigler Center faculty

Back to Make-Believe, Florida Today, November 17, 2007, with quote from Dorothy Singer, Zigler Center faculty

Anger Management, Yale Alumni Magazine, September/October 2007, with quote from Victoria Brescoll, Zigler Center post-doctoral fellow

Out of Control-Families Turn to Pediatricians for help when child care centers threaten explusion, American Academy of Pediatrics News, July 2007, with quote from Walter Gilliam.

Breaking the Tantrum Cycle on work by Alan Kazdin, Zigler Center faculty, for Yale Alumni Magazine

Testimony:

Connecticut Legislature Testimony by Joseph Mahoney

Book Releases

In August 2006, two books by Zigler Center authors were released: A Vision for Universal Preschool Education and Child Development and Social Policy Knowledge for Action. For information see our Publications page.

Press Releases

A new study by Zigler Center faculty of Parents as Teachers shows the program's positive impact. Click here for a press release.

A Vision for Universal Preschool Education, by Edward Zigler, Walter Gilliam and Stephanie Jones, has won the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Read a press release here.

A study by Walter Gilliam, Zigler Center Director, found that Pre-K students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in grades K-12. Read a press release on this study. A follow-up report that advocates policies to reduce expulsion of the nation’s youngest students was released on January 10, 2008. Read a press release here.