Resource Database
“Advocate” 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 Long Awaited Conversation: Dialogue to Bridge the High Tech/High Touch Gap in Early Childhood Work
This meeting summary focuses on the need to provide professional development to large numbers of early care and education professionals and the need to improve the educational levels of current and prospective early childhood professionals. More...
A Systematic Review for the Effects of Television Viewing by Infants and Preschoolers
The purpose of this work was to conduct a systematic review of experimental trials for the effects of television viewing by infants and preschoolers. 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 Alliance For Children
AAC is a resource for policy makers, children’s service providers and advocates, and the media. 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...
Adults and Children Together Against Violence
From the website: ACT-Adults and Children Together-Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. More...
Alliance for Childhood
From the website: While promoting a broad range of healthy essentials for children, the Alliance works intensively on certain critical issues. More...
American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
American Center for Children and Media
From the website: The American Center for Children and Media—an ‘executive roundtable’ for TV and digital industry leaders—is headquartered in Chicago, IL. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Baby Videos Deceptive, Advocacy Group Argues
In the Complaint, CCFC said Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby lure parents into thinking babies will be smarter if they watch the videos. 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...
Bringing Up Baby
This article focuses on different issues related to advertising and children. More...
California Children and Families Commission
The California Children and Families Act of 1998 is designed to provide, on a community-by-community basis, all children prenatal to five years of age with a comprehensive, integrated system of early childhood development services. 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 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 Care and Education
From the website: AED’s Center for Early Care and Education strives to enhance the lives of all under represented, at-risk children and families… 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 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 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...
Cheryl A. Leanza
From the website: Cheryl A. Leanza, a public interest attorney and veteran First Amendment advocate, is the managing director of the UCC’s Office of Communication, Inc. 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...
Children and Computer Technology, Executive Summary
Ten recommendations are presented to ensure proper technology use and opportunities for children. 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’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, Adolescents, and Advertising
Media education has been shown to be effective in mitigating some of the negative effects of advertising on children and adolescents. 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...
Commercial Alert
From the website: Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,... More...
Common Sense Makes for Good Moral Nanny
The article focuses on the views of the author on issues related to television broadcasting in the U.S. More...
Computers and the Very Young
Paper cautions against the ““earlier the better”” approach to introducing computers to young children. More...
CoSN Response to the Alliance for Childhood Study
This report is CoSN’s response to the reports published by Alliance for Childhood in an effort to reveal that technology use can support human connections and engage children in transforming the world. More...
David Kleeman
From the website: David Kleeman is President of the American Center for Children and Media, an executive roundtable and professional development hub that promotes exchange of ideas, expertise, and information as a means for building quality. More...
David Walsh, Ph.D.
Dr. Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. More...
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is one of seventeen divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). More...
Return to the main Resource Database page.
