90 percent of parents said their children under age 2 watch some form of electronic media. On average, children this age watch televised programs one to two hours per day.

Parents who believe that educational television is "very important for healthy development" are twice as likely to keep the television on all or most of the time.

Many video programs for infants and toddlers are marketed as "educational," yet evidence does not support this.

In 2001, the American Management Association found that one-third of job applicants flunked basic literacy and math tests. 

e-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early

There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s. 

our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined

Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.

most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.