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TV for Families

Learn about quality programs that parents and children can watch together. Discover how to keep your family safe and healthy. ThinkBright & Well TV provides you with programs that matter to your family!

 
Talking with Your Kids About the News

At every age and stage, children are affected by what's happening in the news, whether parents share this information or shield them from it - because the news is everywhere.

 
Media

Discover how TV, movies, advertising, computers and video games can shape your child's development and what you can do to create a media-literate household.

 

Parents Guide

Media can have a tremendous influence on family life. Consider that 99 percent of U.S. homes have a television. Ninety-eight percent have radios, and 69 percent have computers. It's hard to imagine life without media, and it's important to consider the messages sent. The messages educate, but what do they teach our children?

Nature: Raccoon Nation

Are we, in an effort to outwit raccoons, actually making them smarter and unwittingly contributing to their evolutionary success? Are the ever more complex obstacles that our fast-paced urban world throws at them actually pushing the development of raccoon brains? In this film, scientists from around the world share their thoughts and work to help explore this scientific theory. Attempting to do something that has never been done before, they closely follow a family of urban raccoons as they navigate the complex world of a big city.

February 13, 2012 6 pm

 
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Independent Lens: Whatever it Takes

What's a child's education worth? For one visionary rookie principal, it's priceless. At the Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, an innovative public high school in New York City's South Bronx, Principal Edward Tom leads a dedicated group of teachers, students and parents in their biggest gamble yet. Within a community infamous for hardship, can this brand new school live up to its promise, and inspire new stories of achievement and excellence?

February 22, 2012 7 pm

 
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