Resource Database
“Academic” Results
“G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Sesame Street
From the website: This volume…serves as a marker of the significant role that Sesame Street plays in the education and socialization of young children. More...
A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Webcast of the Panel Discussion accompanying the release of the report. ... examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products… More...
A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products (videos and DVDs, computer software, and video games) for very young children and what kind of research has been conducted to substantiate the educational claims. More...
Academy for Educational Development
From the website: Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. More...
Action for Children’s Television
From wikipedia.org: Action for Children’s Television (ACT) was founded by Peggy Charren in Newton, Massachusetts in 1968 as a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children. More...
Aletha Huston, Ph.D.
From the website: Aletha C. Huston…. specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact of child care and income support policies on children’s development. More...
Alliance for a Media Literate America
From the website: The AMLA was formed to unite the media literacy field and lead the drive to include the teaching of media literacy in a wide range of educational settings. More...
American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
American Journal of Psychology
From the website: AJP explores the basic science of the mind, publishing reports of original research. More...
American Psychological Association
The APA publishes research journals and books dealing with issues related to all aspects of media impact on children, and the website provides links to articles for parents. More...
Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D.
Amy B. Jordan is a Senior Research Investigator at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1996, Dr. Jordan has served as the director of research for the Media and the Developing Child sector at the Center. More...
An Effective Way of Teaching Early Childhood Education Online.
Smita Guha gives suggestions regarding how to successfully conduct early childhood classes online and the results she has found from her own experiences as an instructor in the online delivery format. More...
An Environmental Scan of Children’s Interactive Media from 2000-2002
From the website: This report represents an in-depth scan of the children’s interactive media environment. More...
Angela Santomero
Angela Santomero is a founding partner of Out of the Blue Enterprises LLC. Angela oversees the creative development of all of Out of the Blue’s projects, with a mission and vision to bring educational entertainment to a whole new level. More...
Annenberg Public Policy Center
From the website: Established in 1993, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences, and convenes roundtable discussions that highlight important questions about the intersection of media, communication, and public policy. More...
Annie E. Casey Foundation
From the website: Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. More...
Annual Editions: Early Childhood Education 06/07, 27th Edition
From the website: This Twenty-Seventh Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. More...
Association for Childhood Education International
From the website: The Mission of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) is to promote and support in the global community the optimal education and development of children,... More...
Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)
APTS is a nonprofit membership organization established to represent the interests of its members - the nation’s public television stations. More...
Barbara O’Keefe, Ph.D.
From the website: Barbara J. O’Keefe (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Dean of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. More...
Barbara Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor Wilson’s research focuses on children’s responses to the media, particularly fear responses and responses to televised violence. More...
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
From the website: The Board on Children, Youth, and Families brings the multidisciplinary knowledge and analytic tools of the behavioral, health and social sciences to bear on the development of policies, programs, and services… More...
Brainwonders
From the website: This site is designed to provide parents, caregivers and pediatric and family clinicians with meaningful information about early brain development and the relationships between babies and their parents and caregiver… More...
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
From the website: Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents… More...
Center for Children & Technology
From the website: Since 1980, EDC’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT), a nonprofit research and development organization, has explored the roles that new technologies can play in young people’s lives. More...
Center for Children and Families
From the website: For decades, we have supported federal and state policymakers, program leaders, and teachers in enhancing early education to assure children’s school readiness and success. More...
Center for Early Education and Development
From the website: The Center for Early Education and Development’s mission is to improve developmental outcomes for children. More...
Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
The mission of the Center is to promote the use of evidence-based practice to meet the needs of young children who have, or are at risk for, problem behavior. More...
Center for Media Education
When Action for Children Television closed its doors in 1992, the Center for Media Education assumed the role of carrying on ACT’s work. More...
Center for Media Literacy
From the website: The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally. More...
Center for Research on Child Well-being
From the website: The Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW) is an interdisciplinary center at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. More...
Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS)
The Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS) was established in 2001 with start-up funds from the Foundation for Child Development. Among its activities, CROCUS conducts research and organizes workshops on children and public policy. More...
Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children
From the website: CRITC is dedicated to furthering research and knowledge on the effects of electronic media on children’s social development and academic achievement. More...
Center for Research on the Effects of Television
CRETV has two components: an archive of television content and a research lab conducting studies of the content of television and its effects on viewers. More...
Center on Media and Child Health
From the website: The Center on Media and Child Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. More...
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
From the website: The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is intended to promote the social emotional outcomes and enhance the school readiness of low-income children birth to age 5… More...
Child Development
From the website: As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. More...
Child Trends
From the website: Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families. More...
Childhood Education
From the website: It is published by the Association for Childhood Education International. More...
Children and Interactive Media - A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future
Arguing that very little is currently known about the role of interactive media in children’s lives, this report aims to gather and review existing research in an effort to further such knowledge. More...
Children and Interactive Media - Research Compendium Update
From the website: This report is an update of the Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future report to the Markle Foundation from October 2000. More...
Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research
From the website: This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children’s television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. More...
Children Now
From the website: Children Now is recognized as a leading national public policy organization working to ensure children have a healthy and diverse media environment. More...
Children Youth and Families Education and Research Network
From the website: CYFERnet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families. More...
Children’s Defense Fund
From the website: The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind(r) mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start… More...
Children’s Digital Media Center
The Children’s Digital Media Center unites a national community of scholars, researchers, educators, policy-makers, and industry professionals in a community whose goal is to improve the media environment in which children live and learn. More...
Children’s Learning from Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyond
From the website: This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. More...
Children, Adolescents, and Advertising
Policy Statement from the Committee on Communications, American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published in the December 2006 issue of Pediatrics. More...
Children, Youth and Families Consortium
From the website: The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium was established during the Fall of 1991 to build the capacity of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota communities to use research, influence policy and enhance practice… More...
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
From the website: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning will enhance children’s success in school and life by promoting coordinated, evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school. More...
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