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A new study from Sesame Workshop draws on lessons from project leaders and youth alumni.
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A new study from Sesame Workshop draws on lessons from project leaders and youth alumni.
“The partnership model is key to everything we do,” says Erik Langner, CEO of the Information Equity Initiative.
In a new memoir, the lead producer behind the creation of Russia’s “Sesame Street” recounts the show’s tumultuous birth.
The project’s content will encourage conversations “that parents, caregivers or providers often don’t know how to start.”
Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
Youngwood and Westin will take over for Jeffrey Dunn, who will retire in June.
Each recipient’s local station will receive a $15,000 grant from Sesame Workshop to advance its work in early childhood education.
Findings will help public media’s content creators and stations connect with school-aged children and teens.
In her dream job, English managed Sesame Workshop’s relationships with public television for 19 years.
To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network said that a resource kit for parents, developed by the autism organization Autism Speaks, furthers “stigma against autistic children and adults.”
More than 4,000 episodes of the show will be made available to the public over the next year.
Comments from a former writer for the show prompted a tweet from the Workshop Tuesday.
The agreement “totally changed our economics,” said CEO Jeffrey Dunn.
The nonprofits partnered to win a five-year grant to educate children displaced by conflict in the Middle East.
In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame is among four organizations that advanced in the competition to address a big, complex global problem.
The show’s characters and lessons will be featured in programs bringing educational resources to providers and parents.
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Its proposal, one of eight selected as semifinalists, targets children who face violence, limited access to education, loss of loved ones and other challenges.
“I have been in touch with each of them to meet in person,” Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn said.