Footnotes

1. Interview with Neal Rosenthal, Chief, Division of Occupational Outlook, Department of Labor.
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2. Mandel, "The Digital Juggernaut," Business Week/The Information Revolution, 1994.
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3. Interview with Diana Simeon, Jupiter Communications, June 28, 1996.
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4. National Center for Educational Statistics, Survey of Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, 1995, February, 1996.
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5. Microsoft/Intelliquest, National Computing Survey, January 1995, p. 83.
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6. This information was drawn from interviews with experts conducted by The Children's Partnership and from Everything You Need to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask Kids) About the Information Highway, by Merle Marsh, Ed.D., Computer Learning Foundation, 1995.
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7. See, for example, Kids First Directory, Coalition for Quality Children's Video. For membership information, contact the Coalition at 535 Cordova Road, Suite 456, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 989-8076. Also see The Computer Museum Guide to the Best Software for Kids, by Cathy Miranker and Alison Elliott, Harper Perennial, 1995. Available from bookstores.
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8. See, for example, Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press, Technology in the American Household: Americans Going Online...Explosive Growth, Uncertain Destinations, October 1995; the National Science Foundation; and Anderson, Computers in American Schools 1992: An Overview, 1993.
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9. "Radio and Television Broadcasting," The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
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10. Survey conducted by Find/SVP and Grunwald Associates, reported in the United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, KickStart Initiative: Connecting America's Communities to the Information Superhighway, January 1996, p. 22.
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11. Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press, ibid., p. 1.
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12. Ibid., p. 4.
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13. See, for example, Infoactive, September/October 1995, Center for Media Education; "Do Your Homework," Wall Street Journal, March 28, 1996; Family PC, February 1996; CompuServe Magazine, December 1995; Internet Kids Yellow Pages, Jean Armour Polly, Osbourne McGraw-Hill, 1996. Some resources like The Scout Report, a publication of Net Scout Services Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin; they also have a Web site (http://rs.internic.net/scout/report).
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14. "Big Allowance," Interactive Marketing News, November 10, 1995; "Teens Spend Money—Their Family's and Their Own," Youth Markets ALERT, March 1996.
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15. See Web of Deception: Threats from Online Marketing, a special report by the Center for Media Education, 1996. Available for $25 from the Center for Media Education, 1511 K Street, NW, Suite #518, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 628-2620.
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16. Ibid.
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17. One product, called WebFilter, has been created to block ads online; however, it can only screen out ad banners and cannot identify commerical messages that are merged with content. For the more experienced online users, this product can be downloaded from the Internet.
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18. See, for example, U.S. Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, op. cit., pp. 33 and following.
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19. Ibid., pp. 34 and 42.
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20. National Center for Education Statistics, 1996, op. cit., p. 3.
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21. Ibid.
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22. Ibid.
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23. IDC/LINK 1995 Home Media Consumer Survey, Interview by The Children's Partnership, December 28, 1995.
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24. Ibid.
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25. Ibid.
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26. Ibid.
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27. U.S. Census, "Household and Family Characteristics," pp. 20-483, Steve Rawlings and Arlene Saluter, 1994. Figure includes parents in two-parent family groups as well as one-parent family groups.
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