Resource Database
“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...
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...
Alliance for a Media Literate America
From the website: The AMLA was formed to unite the media literacy field and lead the drive to include the teaching of media literacy in a wide range of educational settings. 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 Family Physician
From the website: American Family Physician is a semimonthly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. 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...
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 Effective Way of Teaching Early Childhood Education Online.
Smita Guha gives suggestions regarding how to successfully conduct early childhood classes online and the results she has found from her own experiences as an instructor in the online delivery format. 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Big Big Productions
Producers of Bear in the Big Blue House and It’s a Big, Big World More...
Bill Isler
From The Fred Rogers Company website: Bill Isler is a longtime professional educator and advocate for children. 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...
Brown Johnson
From the website: Brown Johnson is Executive Creative Director of Preschool Television for Nickelodeon. More...
California Childcare Health Program
From the website: Established in 1987, the California Childcare Health Program is a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. 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 & 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...
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 Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
The mission of the Center is to promote the use of evidence-based practice to meet the needs of young children who have, or are at risk for, problem behavior. More...
Center for Media Education
When Action for Children Television closed its doors in 1992, the Center for Media Education assumed the role of carrying on ACT’s work. More...
Center for Media Literacy
From the website: The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally. 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...
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