"Channel One" is a 12-minute educational television news program broadcast daily to thousands of schools in the United States each school morning. The purpose of this research project was to study and describe how Channel One is used by social studies teachers and their students in the classroom, and what impact this use had on teachers…

This paper discusses Channel One, a 12 minute education television news program broadcast to over 12,000 schools in the United States each school morning. The programming adds over 30 hours of potential information during the school year, most of it related to social studies purposes. Because Channel One is viewed by all students, teachers can…