Watching “WordWorld,” a public-television show in which letter-shaped cartoon characters morph into words, significantly increases preschoolers’ emerging literacy skills, says a new federally financed ...
CHICAGO — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in ...
The Parents Television Council, which regularly issues reports lamenting elements of television content from profanity to violence to the sexualization of teenage girls, has a new report out in which ...