Forty years after Joan Ganz Cooney's landmark study stimulated the creation of Sesame Street, a new center devoted to accelerating children's learning in a rapidly changing world was established.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop focuses on the new challenges children face today, asking the 21st century equivalent of her original question, "How can emerging media help children learn?"

Research & Initiatives

First Book Literacy Initiative
This model development project is examining how to deliver printed and digitally formatted books and other rich interactive educational media through existing distribution channels to low-income and minority children in the United States. The Cent...

Giigle Study
The Internet has great potential as a source of learning for children, but search engines such as those offered by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft...

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Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet
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