Resource Database
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 for Screen-Time Awareness
From the website: Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness provides information so people can live healthier lives in functional families in vibrant communities by taking control of the electronic media in their lives, not allowing it to control them. 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...
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...
Childhood Education
Published by the Association for Childhood Education International. 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 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’s Technology Review
From the website: Children’s Technology Review is a monthly PDF newsletter — modeled in the spirit of Consumer Reports — designed to summarize the latest products and trends in children’s interactive media. 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...
Chuck Wilson
From the Website: Chuck forged many of AIT’s present partnerships and continues to pursue others to fund AIT’s various instructional and professional development products and services. He is responsible for the Agency’s move to digital distribution of materials. More...
Coalition for Quality Children’s Media
From the website: The Coalition for Quality Children’s Media is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children’s media. 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...
Common Sense Media
From the website: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. More...
Computers and the Very Young
Paper cautions against the ““earlier the better”” approach to introducing computers to young children. More...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
The mission of CPB is to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services. 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...
Cynthia Fenneman
Cynthia A. Fenneman is a broadcasting and production executive with 31 years of experience in commercial, public and network cable television. 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...
Dale Kunkel, Ph.D.
Dr. Dale Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspectives, including television effects research as well as assessments of media industry content and practices. 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 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...
Developing Criteria for an Online Learning Environment: From the Student and the Faculty Perspective
Paper encourages examination of deeper pedagogical issues rather than logistical questions regarding online education. 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...
Discovery Education
From the website: The newest division of Discovery Communications, Discovery Education is the leading provider of digital-video-based broadband educational content. More...
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is one of seventeen divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). More...
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
From the website: The Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE) supports the National Science Foundation’s mission of providing leadership and promoting development of the infrastructure and resources needed to strengthen preK-12 SMT education throughout the United States. More...
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...
Dorothy G. Singer, Ed.D.
Dorothy G. Singer is an expert on early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. More...
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research and Practice
From the website: ECRP is a bilingual Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children. 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...
Early Reading in Bilingual Kindergartners: Can Educational Television Help?
This study examines individual growth rates in phonological awareness and letter-word identification skills over an academic year for 150 Latino English-language learners. More...
Educate, Inc.
From the website: Educate, Inc. (Nasdaq: EEEE) is a leading pre-K-12 education services company delivering supplemental education services to students and their families. More...
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