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Action Alliance For Children
AAC is a resource for policy makers, children’s service providers and advocates, and the media. More...
Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT)
From the website: AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America. 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...
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 Public Television (APT)
From the website: For more than 48 years, American Public Television has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations. 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...
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...
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 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 Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor Wilson’s research focuses on children’s responses to the media, particularly fear responses and responses to televised violence. More...
Big Big Productions
Producers of Bear in the Big Blue House and It’s a Big, Big World More...
Bill Isler
From the Family Communications, Inc. website: Bill Isler is a longtime professional educator and advocate for children. More...
Brown Johnson
From the website: Brown Johnson is Executive Creative Director of Preschool Television for Nickelodeon. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Cynthia Fenneman
Cynthia A. Fenneman is a broadcasting and production executive with 31 years of experience in commercial, public and network cable television. 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...
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 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...
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...
Elizabeth Vandewater, Ph.D.
From the website: Dr. Vandewater is the Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) at the University of Texas. Dr. Vandewater is a founding member of the NSF funded Children’s Digital Media Centers (CDMC). More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. 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...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. 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...
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...
HIT Entertainment
From the website: HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners since June 2005, is one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights-owners. More...
Hypothesis Group
From the website: Hypothesis is a growing team of diverse, highly talented senior-level professionals who bring creativity, attention to detail, an extensive knowledge base, and a never ending quest for the best questions and the richest answers for every client and project. More...
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
From the website: The Independent Television Service (ITVS) brings to local, national and international audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. More...
Insight Research Group
From the website: We help clients create curricula, TV, film, websites, advertising and products that inspire imagination, creativity, and growth. More...
Jayne James
Jayne W. James, Ed.D. joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as the Executive Director of “Ready To Learn,” a collaborative initiative between CPB and PBS. More...
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.
Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. More...
John Boland
John Boland joined PBS in fall of 2006 as the organization’s first Chief Content Officer. In this role, Mr. Boland is responsible for television programming, new media, education and promotion. More...
John Cook Wright, Ph.D.
John Cook Wright, a professor and researcher in the Division of Human Development and Family Sciences whose specialization was the effects of media on children,... More...
John Lawson
John Lawson is the president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations, which is U.S. public television’s national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. More...
Karen Hill Scott, Ed.D.
From the website: Dr. Karen Hill Scott co-founded Crystal Stairs, one of California’s largest non-profit child development agencies; teaches at the UCLA School of Management; and contributes to child development policy through consulting and public service. More...
KCEd: KCET’s Early Childhood Initiative
From the website: KCEd is a multi-platform project [of KCET, the Los Angeles public television station,] designed to enhance the learning experiences of preschool children by increasing the resources of caregivers. More...
KidSmart Early Learning Program
The IBM KidSmart Early Learning Program integrates new interactive teaching and learning activities using the latest technology into the pre-kindergarten curricula. More...
Lesli Rotenberg
Ms. Rotenberg leads PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, a five-year initiative defining the role PBS will play in the changing digital children’s media landscape. More...
Linda Simensky
Linda Simensky is Senior Director of Children’s Programming for PBS. More...
Marcia Grimsley
From the Kaiser Family Foundation Website: Ms. Grimsley [was] responsible for the launch of over 40 titles under the Brainy Baby and Small Fry Productions lines. More...
Mary Kadera
Mary Kadera, a former high school teacher, joined PBS eight years ago as an education producer and rose through the ranks to director of digital education. 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...
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