The U.S. Commissioner of Education outlines his goals for education and his hopes for the role technology in general and television in particular will play in improving education in this country. An address given before the annual convention of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., Novemeber 10, 1969. (LS)

Reports on a study of the maximum rate of presentation at which relevant visual information could be transmitted before recall was impeded." (Author/AA)

How to improve the design of research on the effectiveness of media." (Editor)

The head of Research at Thames Television (London) discusses in some detail the way the body's sight mechanism perceives color and the implications of this process for television. (LS)

A brief report on educational broadcasting in Canada, with special attention given to the domestic satellite communications system hoped to be in operation in 1972. (LS)

Some comments on the quality of instructional television presentations and on the need for teachers to use the medium creatively. (LS)

Presents systematic evidence that violent, fictional television stories trigger imitative deaths and near-fatal accidents. In 1977, suicides, motor vehicle deaths, and nonfatal accidents all rose immediately following soap opera suicide stories. (AM)

Concludes that next-day weather forecasts given by television stations are usually accurate and that stations seldom change their forecasts between the early evening and late evening newscasts. (FL)

Provides several questions to serve as guides for teachers and students in viewing the CBS television special, "The Corn Is Green." (CMV)

The instructional uses of television are assigned to three categories: as a medium for teaching other subjects, as the subject of a study, or as motivation for affective objectives. Implications of each category for the education of gifted children are considered. (CL)

The gratifications identified by viewers of the daytime television serial "All My Children" were (in rank order): entertainment, habit, convenience, social utility, relaxation or escape from problems, escape from boredom, and reality exploration or advice. (GT)