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Docs for Tots
From the website: The mission of Docs For Tots is to develop, support, and grow a nationwide network of doctors able to respond to the requests of child advocacy organizations and others. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
From the website: Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). More...
Edward Markey
From the website: Edward J. Markey (D., Massachusetts) was instrumental in the passage of the Children’s Television Act of 1990,... More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
FatherLit Database
From the website: The FatherLit Database is a compilation of citations, annotations, and abstracts for over 8,500 basic and policy research publications on fathers, families, and child welfare. More...
Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
Creating an environment in which U.S. children and youth can grow up healthy should be a high priority for the nation. More...
Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
This report is a highly controversial and widely disseminated report, often referred to as the most critical report on children’s use of computers available. More...
Foundation for Child Development
From the website: The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities. More...
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From the website: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is a multidisciplinary institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Group Files Complaint Against Makers of Videos for Infants
The complaint with the FTC “is making the assumption that parents don’t know what they’re doing and can’t make an intelligent decision for themselves,” he said. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Harvard Family Research Project
For over twenty years, Harvard Family Research Project has helped philanthropies, policymakers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. More...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
From the website: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. More...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
Innovations in E-learning: New Promises for Professional Development
This article cites the benefits of technology tools for the field of early childhood professional development and education while also highlighting successful models. More...
International Society for Technology in Education
From the website: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education. More...
It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. July 19, 2006. The Kaiser Family Foundation released the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food advertising to children… More...
James P. Steyer
From the website: As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
Joseph Lieberman
Senator Lieberman, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, crafted the Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, which received unanimous Senate approval in September 2006. More...
Judge Baker Media Center
From the website: Established in 1994, Judge Baker’s Media Center seeks to unite media professionals, mental health practitioners and classroom educators in a single common pursuit: ensuring the health and well-being of children. More...
Kids TV, Now with more Vitamins
Focuses on the efforts of television networks to develop programs aimed at promoting healthy living to children in the U.S. More...
Lois Salisbury
Lois Salisbury joined the Packard Foundation as the director of the Children, Families, and Communities Program in March of 2002. More...
Marjorie Tharp
Marjorie Tharp is an assistant director for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Department of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C. More...
Markle Foundation
The Interactive Media For Children Program has aimed principally to gain in-depth knowledge about the impact of interactive media on children’s learning and development, and has worked to promote the use of that knowledge… More...
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
From the website: Mathematica strives to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence to bear on the provision of information collection and analysis to our clients. More...
Michael Copps
According to the FCC Website:Michael J. Copps was nominated for a second term as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on November 9, 2005, and sworn in January 3, 2006. His term runs until June 30, 2010. More...
Miriam Calderon
From the Foundation for Child Development website (http://www.child-family.umd.edu): Miriam Calderon is the Manager of the Early Childhood Education Policy Project at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) in Washington, D.C. More...
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
From the website: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children… More...
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
From the website: NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, is our nation’s leading voice for child care. More...
National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE)
From the website: NAECS/SDE (National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education) is a national organization for state education agency staff members with major responsibilities in the field of early childhood education. More...
National Black Child Development Institute
From the website: Since 1970 The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), a nonprofit organization, has provided and supported programs, workshops, and resources for African American children, their parents and communities… More...
National Center for Early Development and Learning
From the website: Research at the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social and emotional development of children from birth through age eight. More...
National Center on Fathers and Families
An interdisciplinary policy research center, NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children. More...
National Child Care Information Center
From the website: The [site] includes the names of State professional development systems or initiatives, contact information, and highlights of online information. More...
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
From the website: The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center supports the implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). More...
National Head Start Association
From the website: The National Head Start Association is a private not-for-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families. More...
National Institute on Media and the Family
From the website: The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nonprofit organization that is based on research, education, and advocacy. More...
National Parent-Teacher Association
Working in cooperation with many national education, health, safety, and child advocacy groups and federal agencies, National PTA collaborates on projects that benefit children and that bring valuable resources to its members. More...
New Tricks Help Old Stay on Air
The article discusses how the television program Blue’s Clues, of Nickelodeon company, maintained its relationship with its viewers despite the changes in its hosts and characters in Great Britain. More...
Norma Pecora, Ph.D.
Dr. Pecora’s research interests focus on issues of gender and children and media, especially the political economy of the children’s television industry. More...
One Mission Many Screens - A PBS/Markle Foundation Study on Distinctive Roles for Children’s Public
“One Mission, Many Screens” outlines six fundamental principles to guide and govern public service media for children. More...
Ounce of Prevention Fund
From the website: The Ounce of Prevention Fund is dedicated to ensuring that, beginning at birth, children in low-income families can overcome the challenges of poverty and enter kindergarten fully prepared to achieve. More...
Parents Rely on TV To Help Them Perform Balancing Act, Researchers Say
Parents see TV as the way to manage busy schedules, keep the peace, and facilitate routines such as meals and bedtime. More...
Parents Television Council
From the website: The Parents Television Council was founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media. More...
Parents’ Action for Children
From the website: Parents’ Action for Children was founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele as the I Am Your Child Foundation (IAYC). More...
Patti Miller, M.A.
From the website: Patti Miller, Vice President and Director of the Children & the Media Program, oversees independent research projects on children and the media and monitors public policy developments in the communications field as it affects children. More...
Peggy Charren
From the Jewish Women’s Archive website (http://www.jwa.org): Peggy Charren formed a non-profit organization called Action for Children’s Television (ACT), which advocated for higher quality, less commercialized children’s television programming and fought censorship. More...
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