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29. The Economics of kids's Educational Programming. As noted above, in enacting the CTA, Congress found that market forces were not sufficient to ensure that commercial stations would provide kids's educational and information programming. Congress concluded that the same problems that the Commission found in 1976 still existed and that market forces had not worked to increase the educational and information programming available to kids on commercial television.(75)
30. A number of factors explain the marketplace constraints on providing such programming. Over-the-air commercial broadcast televisi... Kids Connect with rare falcons online in new environmental education program
What's the fastest creature on earth? What species has recovered from the brink of extinction? What cliff-dwelling raptor has adapted to city life and is moving onto skyscrapers across North America? If you answered the peregrine falcon, you're right!
This glamorous speedster is the subject of a new science program for children in grades 4-6 called "Raptors in the City". The peregrine falcon was removed from the List of Endangered Species in 1999 and is one of the great success stories in the fie... Program Guides
55. Comments. Public interest groups, programmers, and other commenters generally support stations providing information about core programs to program guides on the ground that it would provide parents with advance notice of the scheduling of educational programs.(135) The National Telecommunications and Information Administration ("NTIA") commented that this proposal is one of the most important improvements we proposed in the NPRM, and will empower American parents by providing information to help them find progra... How to Comply With
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information from kids under 13. The new rules spell out what a Web site operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent from a parent and what responsibilities an operator has to protect children's privacy and safety online.
The Federal Trade Commission staff prepared this guide to help you comply with the new requirements fo... Building Effective Programs for kids for Summer Learning
1. Form partnerships with schools.
Local public schools are where the neediest kids spend the rest of the year, and so can be very helpful in identifying and recruiting the children who need summer programs the most. Teachers, tutors, principals and counselors can all make recommendations about which students most need summer help, and can also serve as important links to children's parents, playing an important role in persuading them to have their children participate.
Examples of programs reaching out to schools include the St. Louis Public Library's summer reading club, which reports that one of its... 1. In this Order, we take action to strengthen our enforcement of the kids's Television Act of 1990 ("CTA"),(1) which requires the Commission, in its review of each television broadcast license renewal application, to "consider the extent to which the licensee . . . has served the educational and informational needs of kids through the licensee's overall programming, including programming specifically designed to serve such needs."
(2) In enacting the CTA, Congress found that television has the power to teach kids -- that "television can assist kids to learn important information, skills, values, and behavior, while entertaining them and exciting their curio... VA Launches "Kids Page" on Internet
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced the launch of VA Kids, a new Web page designed to help young people understand what it means to be a veteran.
“The ideals of military service and patriotism can be unfamiliar to some children and young adults,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. “The VA Kids Web page supports President Bush’s initiatives on education and volunteerism by providing an entertaining and informative way for young people to learn why veterans are spe... 81. With respect to the first element of our definition, we proposed to require that any program that is claimed to be specifically designed to meet kids's needs have educating and informing kids as a "significant purpose." We proposed that core programming have serving the educational and informational needs of kids as a "significant" instead of "primary" purpose as suggested in the NOI, in response to the widely-held view that such programming must be entertaining to be successf... |
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