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July 4th, 2005

TV is Bad for Childrens Education, Studies Say

By Andrew Stern
Reuters News Agency

The more time children spend watching television the poorer they perform academically, according to three studies make on Monday.
prodigal television display has been blamed for increasing rates of childhood obesity and for aggressive behavior, while its impact on tuition have been inconclusive, researchers said.
But studies published on the topic in this months Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicament concluded television viewing tended to have an adverse piece on academic pursuits.
For instance, children in third grade (approximately 8 years old) who had televisions in their bedroomsâ€"and therefore watched more TVâ€"scored trim back on standardized tests than those who did not have sets in their rooms.
In contrast, the flying field found having a home figurer with opening to the Internet resulted in comparatively higher test score.




Consistently, those with a bedroom television but no home computing device access had, on aver fester, the lowest scores and those with home computer access but no bedroom television had the highest scores, wrote study author Dina Borzekowski of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
American homes with children have an average of well three televisions each, the report said, and children with televisions in their bedrooms averaged nearly 13 hours of viewing a week compared to nearly 11 hours by children who did not have their own sets.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has urged parents to term childrens television viewing to no more than unmatchable to two hours per dayâ€"and to try to keep younger children out-of-door from TV altogether.
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