ROR is an important intervention, promoting parental literacy support and enhancing language development in impoverished preschool children. Integration of literacy promoting interventions such as these into routine pediatric health care for underserved populations can be recommended.

A cademic institutions have strong incentives to develop faculty who are productive researchers, master clinicians, and educators. Forward-thinking institutions are encouraging their educators to become not only stellar teachers, but also productive scholars through peerreviewed dissemination of rigorously developed and evaluated curricular innovations, evaluation tools, and teaching methodologies. This emphasis on evaluation is imperative to ensure that educational programs effectively and efficiently meet the needs of the learners and the healthcare system. Even though many educator development programs train faculty to be good teachers, relatively few emphasize educational scholarship and research. Moreover, few of these are national programs offering participants the benefits of national mentoring and networking.

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This study tested whether parental knowledge of the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) recommendations on juice limits for children is associated with decreased consumption of juice and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) among parents and children. Fifty-two parents with children 2 to 12 years old in a resident continuity clinic in East Harlem, New York, completed a survey asking about children's and parent's practice and quantitative consumption of juice and SSBs as well as parental knowledge of the AAP recommendations on juice limits. Parent's total daily consumption of juice and SSBs ( P < .01), parent's score on the test of AAP guidelines ( P = .04), and parent's post-high school education ( P = .01) were associated with children's juice and SSB consumption in a multivariable linear regression model. Children's consumption of juice and SSBs is positively associated with parental consumption of juice and SSBs and negatively associated with parental formal education and knowledge of the AAP recommendations on juice limits.

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