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99 CIS S 43137
TITLE:
ESEA: From Tales to Tapes
CIS-NO: 99-S431-37
SOURCE: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-149
DATE: May 20, 1999
LENGTH: iv+243 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-149
SUMMARY:
Hearing to assess child and
family reading and literacy promotion programs, including programs partially
funded through Department of Education support for public TV programming.
Also examines issues involved in public schools subscription to
Channel One, a daily news program broadcast for secondary school students which
includes 10 minutes of news and 2 minutes of commercial advertising.
Supplementary material (p. 151-243) includes submitted statements,
correspondence, and articles.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Literacy promotion programs review; secondary school news program
commercialization issues
DESCRIPTORS:
EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING; PUBLIC BROADCASTING; READING;
FAMILIES; CHILDREN; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHING AIDS AND
DEVICES; ADVERTISING; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
99-S431-37 TESTIMONY NO: 1 May 20, 1999 p. 7-56
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WASHINGTON, CASSANDRA D. (Ready to Learn (RTL)
Coordinator, Mississippi Educational TV)
COONROD, ROBERT
T. (President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
WAUGH, KATHY (Project Director, Between the Lions,
WGBH-TV, Boston, Mass)
WHITE, ARTHUR (Vice Chairman,
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF))
WOOD, LINDA P. (school
library media specialist)
WHITTED, NEDRA (Executive
Director, RIF, Chicago, Ill)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Success of public TV RTL programs in providing educational
programming for children, focusing on reading promotion efforts; description of
RIF initiative to provide books to at-risk children; relationship between
educational TV reading promotion programs and student achievement.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Literacy promotion programs review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
MISSISSIPPI
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION; POVERTY; CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
99-S431-37 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May 20, 1999 p.
61-150
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
BERRETH, DIANE G. (Deputy Executive Director, Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD))
SCHLAFLY, PHYLLIS (President, Eagle Forum)
NADER, RALPH (Founder, Commercial Alert)
FOLKEMER, PAUL (Executive Vice President, Education,
Channel One)
WEIGAND, PETER (Rev.) (Headmaster, St.
Anselm's Abbey School)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Differing views on efficacy of Channel One classroom news
broadcasting; negative impact of Channel One commercial advertising on
teenagers; issues related to Channel One classroom news broadcasting and
commercial advertisements.
INSERTION:
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ASCD, "Commercialism in Schools: Supporting Students or Selling Access" forum
transcript, Dec. 9, 1998 (p. 73-102).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Secondary school news program commercialization issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
ASSOCIATION FOR
SUPERVISION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; YOUTH; MARKETING 
