At its best, educational television can provide children with enormous opportunities and can
serve as a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and …

The 1990 Children's Television Act (CTA) requires broadcasters to provide educational and
informational television programs for children. A multimethod, multidisciplinary approach …

Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but
current research also reflects the explosive growth in new technologies and their …

USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This book addresses
the subject of children and television--how they view it, what they think of specific programs …

This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children's television,
covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. The work includes …

Electronic media, particularly television, have long been criticized for their potential impact
on children. One area for concern is how early media exposure influences cognitive …

An implicit justification for the Children's Television Act is that curriculum-based television
programming, such as Sesame Street, is in fact educational. Such programming, however …

Two opposing trends have characterized discussions of children's television viewing and its'
relationship to educational achievement. First, there has been a popular belief that television …

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view. Contrary
to most prevailing opinion, it contends that television has much to teach children, and that …

A comprehensive report summarizes the past 10 years of research activities and findings
concerning the effects of television viewing on child behavior and development …