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NYTimes: “Does television rot children’s brains? A new study by two economists from the University of Chicago taps into a trove of data from the 1960’s to argue that when it comes to academic test scores, parents can let children watch TV without fear of future harm…The result showed ‘very little difference and if anything, a slight positive advantage’ in test scores for children who grew up watching TV early on, compared to those who did not…She said that ‘there is a huge body of evidence that educational television’ can be good for children…”

Well, there you have it…until, of course, the next study comes out.

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