Bruce Fuller's Study Finds Latino Children in Illinois Less Likely to Attend Preschool

Illinois Latino children less likely to attend preschool:
http://www.wbez.org/story/news/education/illinois-latino-children-less-likely-attend-preschool

Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/2896864,CST-NWS-latino16.article

Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-latino-preschool-access-20101115,0,826807.story

Jane Perry, Child Study Center Research Coordinator Retires

After having been with the University in various capacities for 29 years, Jane P. Perry has retired as a Preschool Teacher and Researcher Coordinator of July 1, 2010. She plans to continue consulting on the local and not so local level and continue her advocacy for children and teachers. Wendy Edelstein's article provides some highlights to the contributions of Dr. Perry to the Early Childhood Education Program and the Institute of Human Development.
www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/07/12_janeperry.shtml

Fuller Study Finds Latino Kindergartners' Social Skills Strong

Bruce Fuller argues that Latino Kindergarteners develope cultural practices that foster learning.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/05/03/31latino-2.h29.html?tkn=YMBFkO3ZHQ1759hohTiTAwKcl+i6+ruZ9zH9&cmp=clp-ecseclips

Alison Gopnik's Research on ABC's Nightline

Professor Alison Gopnik is interviewed about her research at the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center for ABC's Nightline. It was aired live on Friday, April 2, 2010. To view this piece, Kids Play: Are you Smarter than a 4 Year Old?, please visit the following link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/kids-play-10275716?&clipId=10275716&playlistId=10275716&cid=siteplayer/

Larry Nucci on NPR: All Things Considered

Larry Nucci was featured in an NPR All Things Considered segment that aired nationally on Monday, March 29, 2010. It resulted from a press release on one of the studies he described in his IHD Brown Bag Talk. The segment is titled: "The rules about how parents should make rules."

It can be heard online at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125302688

Norm Constantine discusses California's teen birth rate reduction

After almost two decades of reductions, California's teen birth rate is at an all time low and is now just half of what it was in 1991. But Kern County has bucked this trend with a teen birth rate nearly twice as high as the state overall, and still rising. In an article in the Bakersfield Californian, IHD member Norm Constantine discusses several potential explanations for the Kern County anomaly and why these don't hold up, concluding "I suspect local expectations and norms may be factors, I don't know how else to explain it."
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x431719749/Kern-County-No-1-for-teen-births

Constantine also is quoted about the statewide teen birth rate reduction in an article in the Los Angeles Times, noting the importance of the state's Family PACT program in providing no cost reproductive health services to adolescents.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teen-births23-2010feb23,0,6743340.story

Jack Block: 1924-2010

Jack Block, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and a member of IHD for many years, died on January 13, 2010. As many of you know, Professor Block published research based on longitudinal studies in IHD. Professor Block conducted his most influential work in collaboration with his late wife, Jeanne Humphrey Block. He was widely known for longitudinal research projects, spanning decades, examining the factors that influence development. He explored the impact of divorce on children, effects of early childhood experiences on political values, antecedents of drug use and abuse, the genesis of depression, and differences in the development of boys and girls. He was known as a rigorous methodologist and an incisive critic who engaged in vigorous debate and made major contributions to key theoretical issues in psychology: the continuity/discontinuity of personality over time, conceptual models of personality, sex-role development, and improving the reliability of clinical judgments about character and personality.

http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/docs/Block_obituary.pdf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/02/BALP1BPTLL.DTL