Reprint from American Education, August-September 1969.

An interview with National Education Association (NEA) Executive Director Terry Herndon probes the NEA's involvement and concern with television programing. The NEA has looked for ways to become a constructive influence on television programing. (CJ)

Chronicles development and production of television series, "The Counseling Forum," that deals primarily with mental health counseling issues for broadcasting on Public Broadcasting Service, educational, and cable stations. Provides specific steps that mental health counselors can follow in development and production of television series as public…

Discusses television in the 1960s as a form of communication including commercial television (CTV), public television (PTV), educational television (ETV), and instructional television (ITV). The Educational Media Study Panel (EMSP), an official advisory group to the Commissioner and the U.S. Office of Education, studied the growth of television…

The use of television to aid in developing values and life styles is observed by examining student responses of television shows. (JR)

The quality of programs for children is examined, including cartoons, picture stories, and puppet plays. To attain quality programming there must be collaboration between writers, directors, and actors who are committed to quality standards on educational television. (Author/JR)

To study the impact of "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" on teaching methods in kindergarten through second grade, a questionnaire was designed and mailed to over 300 Washington, D.C., area teachers. Results taken from the 75 returned questionnaires indicated that a majority of teachers used television in their…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Report and Policy Statement on Children's Television Programs summarizes the findings of a series of hearings held in response to a petition of Action for Children's Television (ACT), urging that the FCC prohibit sponsorship and commercials in children's programing, forbid product mention by program…

The results of a telephone survey were used to estimate that 156,000 families watch WPSX-TV, an Educational television station located in central Pennsylvania. Of the sample contacted (N=1,984) 78% watched the station at least once a week and 15% watched daily. During the telephone interview 80% of the respondents agreed to fill out a follow-up…

Evaluates seven studies concerned with the influence of Sesame Street on the development of learning skills in preschool children and provides a balance sheet of achievements, limitations and unanswered questions. (MH)

The senior commissioning editor for educational programing on Channel Four, a British television channel committed to quality programing, discusses how plans have progressed through the first year of broadcasting. She specifically discusses target audiences, labelling, how many people have been reached, special programing, innovation and…

Television presents a new, flexible, and inexpensive means of illustrating a lesson. Television is both audio and visual, to use the term audio-visual, applied in the past particularly to motion pictures, film strips, slides, recordings, and similar valuable aids to teaching. Television is a picture in motion with sound occurring at the same…

Author proposes a national task force to investigate and set forth a series of national goals in terms of the appropriate educational uses of cable television. (Author/MB)

Explains how the media can best be utilized in aiding the growth of a developing country." (Editor)