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Focusing educational television // `Experts' offer FCC advice on kids' shows
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What is quality educational children's television?
It takes the Federal Communications Commission 21 words just to
describe educational and informational programs. It doesn't even get
into quality.
"You can probably say about quality what you say about
pornography - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it,"
said children's television advocate Peggy Charren, who is also a
visiting scholar at Harvard University's graduate school of
education.
She was in Wa...
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FCC tentatively approves new rules on educational children's shows.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WASHINGTON _ The Children's Television Act of 1990 hasn't done much for children or television. Intended to produce more educational children's shows, the law has instead set off a long-running power struggle over what it means and how it should be enforced. On Wednesday, the Federal Communications
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Kids TV stays on FCC seesaw. (Federal Communications Commission hearing on children's television)
Broadcasting & Cable
; The FCC may be ready to regulate children's television, but just how far it will go is uncertain. Even after the commission's daylong hearing on children's television last Tuesday, observers were divided over what the agency will do. It's difficult to draw any conclusions, one broadcast industry
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Producers of educational children's programing take note. (federal grants) (Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable
; Producers of educational children's programming take note: The federal government last week formally invited such producers to apply for up to six grants ranging from $50,000 to $300,000. The National Endowment for Children's Educational Television, authorized under the 1990 Children's Television
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A Children's TV Battle // Pro-Education Forces Battle Deregulation
Chicago Sun-Times
; B ack when the Democrat-controlled Congress passed the Children's Television Act of 1990, the idea was simple. As a way to serve the public interest, broadcasters were required to offer high-quality, educational children's programs. Congress didn't get too specific, but it was clear that reruns of
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Flunking the Ratings Test; CBS Dumps `Educational' Children's Shows
The Washington Post
; To satisfy a new federal rule requiring stations to air "educational" children's programs, CBS this fall trotted out a new Saturday morning lineup that educators and TV critics alike applauded. Among other shows, CBS's children's schedule included "Beakman's World," which explains scientific
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Center for Media Education: Next ACT in kids advocacy. (Action for Childrens Television)(Special Children's TV Report)
Broadcasting & Cable
; If the FCC requires TV stations to air minimum amounts of educational children's programing, credit (blame) the Center for Media Education. It was that Washington-based group that two years ago embarrassed broadcasters and alarmed Capitol Hill with a report that stations were trying to pass off GI
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Commissioners prepare for children's hour. (FCC Commissioners)
Broadcasting & Cable
; Broadcasters and public interest groups will square off at the FCC on Tuesday, June 28, over the issue of children's programing. The commission is hosting an open hearing on children's TV and related issues as part of an inquiry into whether the current FCC rules implementing the 1990 Children's TV
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It's not just for Saturday mornings anymore. (Children's Television: Introduction)
Broadcasting & Cable
; There are close to 40 million children in the U.S. today and the younger ones (ages 2-5) watch about 28 hours of television a week, or close to four hours a day. The older ones (6-11) watch close to 24 hours of television a week, or 3.4 hours a day. Estimates are that, together, they spend or
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Children to sing praises of tradition in 'Fiddler'.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Byline: Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent Setting the Stage, the educational children's theater workshop in Arlington Heights, presents its latest musical this weekend. For the first time the troupe will mount the classical musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Three different casts featuring 35
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Perspectives on the Ethics of Sociometric Research with Children: How Children, Peers, and Teachers Help to Inform the Debate
Merrill - Palmer Quarterly
; Perceptions of children and teachers were examined to address concerns regarding children's welfare following sociometric testing. Third-graders (N = 91) were interviewed; teachers also reported on each child's responses to the testing. Results indicate that children were not hurt or upset by the
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