IHD People & News

PNG puts its finger on mathematic

2012-02-21T13:32:00.000-08:00

Professor Geoffrey Saxe, of the Graduate School of Education, explains the method of counting using the traditional numerical system, Oksapmin, in Papua New Guinea to Radio Australia's Pacific Beat.

Click here to read the article.

The Latino Gap: Preschool Helps, But Not Enough Are Enrolled

2012-01-30T10:21:00.000-08:00

Research conducted by Professor Bruce Fuller and graduate student Anthony Kim has found that public programs are not keeping up with demand for enrollment of Latino kids in preschool.

For more information, click here.

Phil & Carolyn Cowan: Exploring family mysteries

2011-07-15T09:25:00.001-07:00

The Cowans' research have set out to test whether interventions designed to strengthen a couple’s romantic and co-parenting relationship could have an impact on children’s emotional well-being and behavior in the longer term. Their work is featured in an article on Prevention Action.org.

http://www.preventionaction.org/people/exploring-family-mysteries/5621

Father’s Day, Mother’s Day. How about Co-Parents Day?

2011-06-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

Phil and Carolyn Cowans' research on the important role that fathers play in their kids’ social and academic success is highlighted in the Berkeley News. The Cowans also emphasize that teamwork in parenting is the ideal.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/17/co-parents-day/

Prof. Stephen Hinshaw discusses the Triple Bind in relation to Aggressive Behavior among girls

2011-01-11T11:03:00.001-08:00

http://www.examiner.com/public-education-in-seattle/news-about-bullying

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

2010-11-17T07:59:00.000-08:00

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

2010-07-20T12:49:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-13T11:14:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-05T12:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-31T14:26:00.000-07:00

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

2010-02-23T09:33:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-26T11:10:00.000-08:00

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

Norm Constantine critiques Sonoma County abstinence-only curriculum

2009-12-16T13:53:00.000-08:00

In an op ed published in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Professor Constantine argues that Life Choice-Healthy Futures, an abstinence‐only‐until‐marriage curriculum widely used in Sonoma County schools, is medically inaccurate and biased, in violation of state law.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091210/OPINION/912109903/1307?Title=GUEST-OPINION-Why-Free-to-Be-curriculum-violates-the-state-Education-Code

Norm Constantine discusses adolescent sleep deprivation

2009-09-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

In Sleepless in Textland, appearing in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, and Contra Costa Times, Norm Constantine, IHD member and clinical professor in the School of Public Health, discusses psychological and educational problems associated with adolescent sleep deprivation, and the potential role of late night texting:
http://www.mercurynews.com/style/ci_13301926
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_13317753

Reviews for The Philosophical Baby

2009-08-13T16:04:00.001-07:00

You may read some of the reviews of Prof. Alison Gopnik's new book, The Philosophical Baby, found through the following links:

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b26dfcf8-77e2-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html

Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=23611818

The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/08/philosophical-baby-alison-gopnik-review

Phil and Carolyn Cowanin the SJ Mercury News

2009-08-12T10:43:00.000-07:00

Phil and Carolyn Cowan's research on the importance of father involvement is discussed in the San Jose Mercury News :
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12957837?nclick_check=1

Steve Hinshaw discusses The Triple Bind

2009-08-12T10:31:00.000-07:00

Steve Hinshaw is interviewed by Faiza Elmasry for Voice in America to discuss his new book, The Triple Bind:
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-07-16-voa61.cfm

Alison Gopnik in The SF Chronicle

2009-08-05T11:35:00.001-07:00

Alison Gopnik, IHD member and Professor in the Department of Psychology, discusses her new book, The Philosophical Baby, in The San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/DDMV190EGG.DTL

Bruce Fuller in the NY Times

2009-08-05T11:26:00.000-07:00

IHD codirector Bruce Fuller asks in the New York Times whether studentachievement is rising in New York City, or whether political motivationsdrive buoyant interpretations of annual test score data.http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/what-do-school-tests-measure/

Steve Hinshaw on the Today Show

2009-07-16T15:47:00.000-07:00

Psychology chair and IHD member, Steve Hinshaw, appeared on NBC's Today Show, discussing his new book, The Triple Bind, focusing pressures faced by adolescent girls in a society that's opened up new roles and multifaceted challenges as young females come of age.http://www.nhmh.org/news_items/video-nhmh-board-member-on-today-show-2-10-09

IHD in the News Launched!

2009-05-06T16:05:00.001-07:00

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