Matia Finn-Stevenson, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, Psychology, Child Study Center
Associate Director, Zigler Center
Director, The School of the 21st Century

Email:
matia.finn-stevenson@yale.edu

URL:
The School of the 21st Century

 

 

Matia Finn-Stevenson is Associate Director of the Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and Director of the Center’s School of the 21st Century unit. Her research interests and work are in areas pertaining to work/family life issues and program development and evaluation, school reform and family support services.  She is primary author of a recently published book on education reform initiatives and the principal investigator of several studies and outcome evaluations of school-based early care and education initiatives and before and after school programs.  Finn-Stevenson is also working on studies pertaining to the impact of demographic changes on schools and communities and is conducting longitudinal studies of the school-based programs in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas City and Missouri. She is leading a national effort to inform and provide technical assistance to educational administrators implementing early care and family support services.  In addition, Finn-Stevenson regularly reviews research and policy pertaining to preschool education and child care and the prevention of developmental disorders.  Finn-Stevenson has been an advisor on domestic policy issues to the staff at the White House Office of Policy Development and a consultant to the Connecticut Legislative Review Committee, the Connecticut Legislature’s Committee on Work and Family, the U.S. House of Representatives Education Committee, and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth.

 

Select Publications

Finn-Stevenson, M. (in progress). Schools’ Role in the Provision of Services to Young Children of Immigrants.

Finn-Stevenson, M. (in press). Parent involvement: Unrealistic expectations or unmet needs?. In D. Rolf (Ed.), Parents and Schools: Unfulfilled Alliances.

Finn-Stevenson, M. & Zigler, E. (2006). What can the School of the 21 st Century teach us about universal preschool? In E. Zigler, W. S. Gilliam & S. M. Jones (Eds.) A Vision forUniversal Preschool Education. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Gilliam, W., Zigler, E., & Finn-Stevenson, M. (2006). National policies for children, adolescents, and families. In M. Lewis (Ed.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook (4 rd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Finn-Stevenson, M. (2005). The School of the 21 st Century. In M. Constas & R. Sternberg (Eds.) From Research to Practice. NJ: Erlbaum.

Desimone, L., Payne, B., Fedoravicius, N., Henrich, C. C., and Finn-Stevenson, M. (2004). Comprehensive school reform: An implementation study of preschool programs in elementary schools. The Elementary School Journal, 104 (5), 369-398.

Zigler, E., Finn-Stevenson, M., & Hall, N. (2002). The First Three Years and Beyond: Brain Development and Social Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Finn-Stevenson, M. (2002). Paving the way: Questions and criteria for the school of the future. In W. Holtzman (Ed.), The School of the Future. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Tanner, M. & Finn-Stevenson, M. (2002). Nutrition and brain development: Social policy implications. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72(2), 182-193.

Finn-Stevenson, M., & Zigler, E. F. (1999). Schools of the 21 st Century: Linking Child Care and Education, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.