Word: zigler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus far the only proven beneficiaries of preschool programs have been culturally deprived youngsters whose work, at least in the early grades, has been helped by the federally funded Head Start program. But the sustained benefits of Head Start have been questioned. Moreover, says Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, director of child development for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, early learning has "no long-term effect on middle-class kids." Zigler caustically condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist...
Centers all over the country have been damaged by budget cuts and by some strong conceptual questions. Edward Zigler, director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, estimates that 40% of the children of working mothers may be in "home day care" (that is, they are cared for either in their own home or in the sitter's), while fully another 40% are in "family day care," where a sitter outside the home cares for four to six children. "It is an open issue for children of every age," he says. Says Psychologist Michael...
...million as thought earlier. Even granting that the statistic seems inflated because more cases are reported now, experts think that there has been a substantial real increase in the practice. Last year's Supreme Court decision allowing teachers to spank children in school, thinks Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, sets an example for institutional abuse, an offense that is even more widespread than abuse by parents. The business of child pornography flourishes. In Los Angeles the police estimate that 30,000 children, many of them under the age of five, are used each year as objects of pornography. A number...
Such is typical of the importance this country has traditionally conveyed upon its children. It is high time that we recognize the connotations, both political and psychological, of Erik Erikson's prophetic statement, "We were all once small." Edward Zigler, of Yale's department of Psychology, will discuss "Principles of Child Development and Social Policy for Children." Be at William James room 1 on Friday at 4 p.m. to learn and enjoy...
Principles of Child Development and Social Policy of Children--Edward Zigler, Department of Psychology, Yale University, Room 1, William James Hall...