Jane Sundius, director of the education and youth development program of the Open Society Institute in Baltimore (that's the local arm of the international foundation started by billionaire George Soros) has a blog post that I suspect might interest many of you.

 It's called "Using Television for Literacy Skills." Sundius argues that since kids are watching an average of four hours of TV a day despite the recommendation of pediatricians that they should watch no more than two, it might help reading skills if parents would turn on the captioning device so children can see words written as well as hear them spoken.

In case you're not familiar with it, the name of the blog is Audacious Ideas.

I suspect television will be a controversial topic on this blog, as it is among parents in general. What are your thoughts about this?

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