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The Impact on Children's Education: Television's Influence on Cognitive Development. Working Paper No. 2.

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Anderson, Daniel R.; Collins, Patricia A. – 1988

It is widely believed that television viewing has a negative impact on school achievement. This belief is supported by negative statistical associations sometimes found between school achievement and amount of television viewing; that is, heavy TV viewers tend to show poorer achievement than light viewers. One possible explanation of this…

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