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- Birth nameEdward Frank Zigler
- Edward Zigler was born on March 1, 1930 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was married to Bernice A. Gorelick. He died on February 7, 2019 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- SpouseBernice A. Gorelick(1955 - February 4, 2017) (her death, 1 child)
- After military service during the Korean War, he graduated from what is now the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958, and joined the Yale faculty a year later.
- His parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who sold produce, and plucked and sold chickens. Starting at age 8, he sold fruit and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. His family received help from a settlement house, an institution, once common in large cities, that assisted immigrant families with social and medical needs and English-language skills. Dr. Zigler used the settlement house as a model for Head Start and other programs.
- He was a child psychologist and one of the principal founders of the Head Start program. It began in 1965 as a summer program for preschool children; after two years, it was expanded to go year-round.
- He was a long-time faculty member at Yale University, where he taught psychology and directed a center for the study of childhood development.
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