September 6, 2008
A New View On TV
It didn't take long after America started tuning in to television that people started to worry about what it was doing to children.
"... In 1977 a panel appointed by the College Entrance Examination Board suggested television bore some blame for the drop in SAT scores. Indeed, the decline began in the mid-1960s, just as the first students heavily exposed to TV took their exams.
"But University of Chicago Graduate School of Business economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro aren't sure that TV has been all that bad for kids. In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics this year, they presented a series of analyses that showed that the advent of television might actually have had a positive effect on children's cognitive ability."
Read full article in the WSJ.
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