A 2003 study looking at the Flynn effect in Kenya between 1984 and 1998 found that the increase was best explained by parents ' literacy, family structure, and children's nutrition and health.

Though during her years in the Governor's Mansion, she did not hold a single formal event, Laura worked for women's and children's causes including health, education, and literacy.

More long-term issues include the planning of the construction of new libraries or extensions to existing ones, and the development and implementation of outreach services and reading-enhancement services ( such as adult literacy and children's programming ).

The Institute provides a variety of services, including research, curriculum development, language education, policy development, children's literacy, and more.

His was the longest tenure of any education commissioner, and he devoted much of his time to children's literacy and arithmetic.

), Developing literacy: Young children's use of language ( pp. 3 – 17 ).

Over 40 years of the children's lives, participants showed greater literacy, higher grades, greater likelihood to graduate high school, higher post-high school employment rates, higher earnings, less need for welfare, committed less crime, and had lower rates of teen pregnancy.

The Rockhurst University Community Center is located at 54th and Troost, where children's literacy programs, community programs, and the RU College Bound high school tutoring program all are held.

Miss Horner has participated in many voter education initiatives, provides mentorship and companionship to senior citizens, and is an advocate for children's literacy campaigns.

At times, prime ministers ' spouses have used their public status to promote charitable causes ; Mila Mulroney was a spokesperson for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other children's charities, Aline Chrétien was an active campaigner for literacy programs, and Laureen Harper is known for her support of animal welfare organizations such as the Ottawa Humane Society.

Events and activities focus on language and literacy, health, sport and recreation, the arts and science, as well as children's cultural, social and emotional needs.

For shared reading, as in first-language literacy activities, the teacher brings in a children's picture book, and reads it to the students in class, making it comprehensible through circling and other means.

In August and September 2006, she toured the United States as part of the Revenge Of The Book Eaters national tour, which benefits the children's literacy centers 826NYC, 826CHI, 826 Valencia, 826LA, 826 Michigan, and 826 Seattle.

The Letter People is the name of a children's literacy program and the television series based on that program.

First marketed widely in the 1990s, it used a particular instructional design to teach letter-sound correlations ( phonics ) as part of children's literacy.

In 2007, Sesame Workshop founded The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which studied how to improve children's literacy by using and developing digital technologies " grounded in detailed educational curriculum ", just as was done during the development of Sesame Street.

She teaches courses on children's play, violence prevention and media literacy.

Lynda Bird Johnson Robb served as Chairman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental ( 1996-2001 ), the nation's largest children's literacy organization.

McNaught is active in children's charity and with breast cancer causes, and she has recently begun promoting literacy issues.

The regional chain began a children's menu featuring " Runza Rex and Friends " and participates in reading and literacy programs.

* Reading Is Fundamental, an organization promoting children's literacy

Critics were concerned changing programs would hurt children's literacy, while advocates argued that the old program was too expensive and the new program would help more children in more grades.

consequently an experienced children's librarian at headquarters conducts a guidance program designed to promote well-planned library activities, cooperating with the children's librarians in member libraries by means of individual conferences, workshops, and frequent visits.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

In March 2010, Devo appeared as the musical guest for an episode of the children's program Yo Gabba Gabba !, in which they performed an altered version of " Watch Us Work It "

St. Anthony's Lighthouse at St. Anthony's Head near Falmouth, Cornwall was featured in the title sequence of the children's live action puppet television program series Fraggle Rock created by Jim Henson.

* 1969 – National Educational Television ( the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service ) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

In the 1970s, syndicated children's television program Big Blue Marble often invited viewers to write to them for their own pen pal.

Another example is Pingu, a children's television program about a penguin who lives with his family in an igloo.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

* The song " Art of the Dress " on Season 1 of the children's program My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic ( 2011 ) is similar to a Sondheim song.

The children's entertainer Mr. Rogers also dedicated 4 episodes of his television program ( entitled the " Conflict " series ) to comfort and talk to young children who had seen the movie on television.

In 1998, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High, The Berenstain Bears and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and weekends aiming the programs at teenagers.

As opposed to ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and WB stations, some UPN affiliates aired the weekend children's program block on Sunday mornings instead of Saturdays.

After eight years of airing children's programming, UPN dropped out of the kids program business in September 2003 when Disney's contract with UPN came to an end.

He also signed America's first child welfare program designed to protect children's health and ensure that they would grow up without neglect from their parents.

** The creative program for children's poetry, " LITER ~ Art " originated in the Valley of the Poets, North Andover, MA.

The children's sports show This Week in Baseball began being shown in widescreen in 2009, while Sunday political talk program Fox News Sunday converted to HD when Fox News Channel launched their new HD facilities in November 2008 ( before the network's widescreen presentation effort went into effect in September 2010, it was the final Fox News program to be produced to fit the 4: 3 safe area, as Fox News Channel itself converted to a full-time widescreen presentation on both their HD and standard definition channels in 2009 ).

As a result of Cooney's initial proposal in 1968, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) grant to create a new children's television program and establish the CTW, renamed in 2000 to the Sesame Workshop ( SW ).

Although the producers decided against depending upon a single host for Sesame Street, instead casting a group of ethnically diverse actors, they realized that a children's television program needed to have, as Lesser put it, " a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities ", both human and Muppet.

It was not until the mid-1990s when a children's television educational program, Blue's Clues, used the CTW's methods to create and modify their content.

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

The show was on the air for 29 years, making it one of the longest-running network children's program series.

T. I. E was responsible for bringing the children's program Sesame Street to Britain.