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“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...

Action Alliance For Children

AAC is a resource for policy makers, children’s service providers and advocates, and the media. 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...

Alice Cahn

Alice Cahn, vice president of acquisitions and development for daytime on Cartoon Network/US draws on an extensive career immersed in the world of children’s entertainment as she writes a new chapter at this renowned entertainment center for youth. 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 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 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...

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...

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...

Brown Johnson

From the website: Brown Johnson is Executive Creative Director of Preschool Television for Nickelodeon. 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 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...

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...

Childhood Education

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 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, 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...

Common Sense Media

From the website: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. More...

Dafna Lemish, Ph.D.

Professor Dafna Lemish is Editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She has written extensively on children and media. More...

Daniel R. Anderson, Ph.D.

Daniel R. Anderson has made it his life’s work to answer such questions as they relate to infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. “My research,” he says, “focuses particularly on the cognitive and educational aspects of children and television.” 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...

Dimitri A. Christakis, MD MPH

Dimitri Christakis MD MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His current research interest is the effect of media usage on young children’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social development. More...

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