A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in new electronic media products for very young children, including those as young as one month old. A driving force behind this new market is the advertising and package labeling that makes claims about the educational benefits of specific products. A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, a new report prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation, examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products (videos and DVDs, computer software and video games) for very young children and what kind of research has been conducted to substantiate the educational claims. (Announcement from OCLC Abstracts v. 8 n. 51)

Journals Indexed in ERIC

You can easily access a list of journals indexed in ERIC. Please note that those journals marked with a gold star are those that are currently indexed (after the ERIC reorganization in 2004, some journals were dropped from database coverage, and many are still in the process of being contacted for inclusion in the ERIC database).

Have a journal you believe should be covered by ERIC--let them know! Click here to contact ERIC with your journal recommendations.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) unveils new website design

NCES has a new website design. Here's what they have to say about it:

"We have added our newest information to the homepage and also restructured our menus to make finding what you are looking for easier. The biggest difference is the navigation bar across the top of every page that enables you to find items of interest no matter where you are on our site.

We are also in the process of redesigning the way we present publications and survey areas. An example of the new publication template can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/.

We have also made available an RSS feed to help you keep abreast of all NCES news."

TCRecord: No Child Left Behind

The new online issue of TCRecord is devoted to No Child Left Behind, and includes articles such as The Expansion of Federal Power and the Politics of Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act and book reviews on a number of new titles relating to No Child Left Behind and its impact on education.