Tag: Education/Engagement
Seven years in a ‘dynamic environment’
Cecily Truett and Larry Lancit rolled the dice. In the spring of 1991, they took their production company and its best known ...Eh-oh!
Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to play. In Teletubbyland, a lush green landscape of undulating hills spotted with clumps of bright ...After all we’ve done, think how much more we can do
In his keynote address at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 22, 1997, David McCullough celebrated the value of history, the joy of ...Frank Baxter, television’s first man of learning
Like Norman Corwin, the exceptional radio producer profiled in the last issue of Current, Frank Baxter had his great broadcast successes on the ...Goal for Ready to Learn: engage kids and parents
On July 11, PBS begins beaming its long-anticipated Ready to Learn service to 11 pilot stations, embarking on what planners acknowledge will ...To serve as a catalyst in making our cities work
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...But how did outreach affect life in the real world?
The evaluation — one of the most extensive attempts to assess the influence of a public TV outreach project — found that ...Annenberg comes back with $60 million
Walter H. Annenberg has returned to CPB with $60 million—and a revised educational purpose — a year and a half after pulling ...JFK: facilities act will help lower barriers to education, 1962
Statement by President John Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which provided ...
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