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Educational Television is not an Oxymoron

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  • DANIEL R. ANDERSON

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An implicit justification for the Children's Television Act is that curriculum-based television programming, such as Sesame Street , is in fact educational. Such programming, however, has been attacked on grounds that it produces shortened attention spans and retards thought and language development. I review these claims in the light of research on children's television viewing. The research provides no support for these attacks and instead reveals both short-and long-term benefits from curriculum-based programming.

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  • Daniel R. Anderson, 1998. "Educational Television is not an Oxymoron," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 557(1), pages 24-38, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:557:y:1998:i:1:p:24-38
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716298557000003
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