Educational Television is not an Oxymoron

Daniel R. Anderson

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1998, vol. 557, issue 1, 24-38

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1998
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