Sponsored by the Media Awareness Network, this Canadian site provides educators, parents and students information and resources on issues involving youth and the ...
According to a March 2001 study conducted by a Buffalo University epidemiologist, obesity among children between the ages of 8 and 16 has more than doubled in one ...
Children Now's Winter 2000 issue of Media Now focuses on gender and video games and ways in which the industry can play a role in creating and advertising games that ...
This free video lending library funded by the U.S. Department of Education offers videos that are "open-captioned," meaning they will display the text with any ...
The eBay Foundation awards grants of $5,000 to $25,000 for unique programs that utilize technology to empower children and youth. Projects should include ...
The U.S. Dept. of Education's new national educational technology plan completes an 18-month effort that involved educators, administrators, policy-makers and the ...
What do computers mean to kids' development? Or families' opportunities? This Fall/Winter 2000 issue of the Packard Foundation's Future of Children series identifies ...
The Morino Institute took a "hands-on" attitude in establishing pilot computer centers in four different Washington, DC schools, arguing that giving computers to ...
A collaboration between the media industry, educators and child advocacy organizations, the Coalition works to make quality children's media more visible and ...
In September of 2000, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported on the results of its investigation into the current marketing practices of the entertainment ...
Based on 1999 survey data, this National Center on Educational Statistics report found that about half of those teachers who have computers available in their schools ...
The July 2000 issue of the Children's Partnership's Next Generation Reports is aimed to help advocates who set a technology policy agenda in their state or community.
If you're looking for ideas on good sites for young children, classroom tips, funding resources or the latest research on using technology to benefit children from ...
Bruno Bettelheim, founder and long-time director of the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago, once wrote an entire book, "The Uses of Enchantment," on how ...
Has the tobacco industry really changed its strategy for recruiting new smokers among youth? Tobacco watchdog groups argue that tobacco companies have merely changed ...
This report from the Children's Partnership examines the digital divide with regard to Web content, and urges community leaders, companies and investors to find ...
Most Americans think that computers and the Internet have made their lives better, according to a poll by National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation and ...
Explore this American Library Association site as a family. Or, take a free online course on the Internet, including history, terms, and ideas for learning together ...
Wonder what teen girls are thinking? New Moon is a magazine by, about and for adolescent girls, designed to help them get through the teen years with self-esteem ...
What helps boys become real men? Children Now says if you believe the media, it's anger and violence. "Boys to Men: Media Messages About Masculinity," a 1999 report, ...
