Suggests that the fact that every country has its own system of cultural values and beliefs that decides the popularity of television programs, which plays a decisive role in influencing the types of shows imported from the United States. (DF)

Deals with an open-government innovation that many cities are adopting: television coverage of city council meetings. Survey data show that less-educated, lower-income, and minority individuals watch the coverage at least as much as the more-advantaged segments of the community. Reasons for television viewing are explored. (PD)

Disputes previous research findings that the amount of time spent viewing television declines significantly during the adolescent years. (FL)

Argues that video courses must teach students not only to make intelligent viewing choices but to sift truth from suggestion in commercials, to avoid mindless acceptance of television's versions of appropriate sex roles, and to examine the values promoted in television programs. Suggests a number of books for media study. (MM)

ITV (instructional television) course development and ITV Center organization in the Dallas County Community College District (Texas) are discussed. (ER)

Authors discuss how long term planning must be supplemented by short range plans if station goals are to be achieved. (Author)

Lists reasons, aids, and effective strategies for teaching television in the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. (RB)

Paper presented at the Action for Children's Television First National Symposium on Children and Television, Kennedy Memorial Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, October 16, 1970. (NH)

"Weighs alternatives in costs and programming quality of color versus black and white." (Editor)

Contains excerpts from the statement by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. (Author)

Reprint from American Education, August-September 1969.

A ten-year study of television viewing and content found that middle level students watch more television than any other age group. They are exposed to violence, sex, use of drugs, and sex role socialization in many programs. Schools can help students become discriminating consumers of television. (MLF)