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Direct linkPhillips, Beth M.; Oliver, Felesa; Willis, Karli B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2022
Children from backgrounds of poverty often lag behind more advantaged peers in early language skills, including breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge. We report the results of a pilot study of an explicit and elaborated vocabulary intervention in preschool classrooms serving children from lower-income backgrounds. The intervention used…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Low Income Students, Preschool Education
Download full textCooney, Joan Ganz – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2019
In 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney was a documentary producer at Channel 13 when Lloyd Morrisett, then Vice President at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, offered her an opportunity that would change the landscape of children's media forever. The Carnegie Corporation provided funding for a three-month study during which Joan traveled the country to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Audiences, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth
Pasnik, Shelley; Llorente, Carlin – Education Development Center, Inc., 2012
The CPB-PBS Ready To Learn initiative, funded by the U. S. Department of Education, brings engaging, high-quality media to young children who may be at risk for academic difficulties due to economic and social disadvantages. The initiative aims to deliver early mathematics and literacy resources on new and emerging digital platforms such as tablet…
Descriptors: Public Television, Educational Television, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Pasnik, Shelley; Llorente, Carlin – Education Development Center, Inc., 2012
Leaders of the CPB-PBS "Ready To Learn" Initiative understand the important role parents and caregivers play in ensuring young children's healthy development and academic learning. In order for young children, especially those living in traditionally underserved communities, to succeed at school and thrive outside of the classroom,…
Descriptors: Public Television, Educational Television, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Berson, Ilene R.; Berson, Michael J. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
Panwapa, created by the Sesame Street Workshop of PBS, is an example of an initiative on the Internet designed to enhance students' learning by exposing them to global communities. Panwapa means "Here on Earth" in Tshiluba, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the Panwapa website, www.panwapa.org, children aged…
Descriptors: African Languages, Citizenship Education, Cartoons, Foreign Countries
Education Development Center, Inc., 2011
In knowing hands, public-media resources can help young children growing up in socially and economically disadvantaged circumstances become better prepared to succeed in school. This vision, which has held steady since the original authorizing legislation for the program was written, continues to guide the work of the Corporation for Public…
Descriptors: Public Television, Educational Television, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
