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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?"

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Blog & Features

Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age
Reprinted from Huffington Post, July 5, 2010. Written together with Esther Wojcicki, Creative Commons Board Chair...

DOE gives CPB & PBS 72m towards Ready To Learn
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Parents Pass-Back Mobile Devices to Children But Are Skeptical of Educational Benefits
Report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Finds Parents Doubt Educational Value of Mobile Apps But Support New Experimentation New York, NY, November 10, 2010 - The explosive growth of mobile media is a current topi...

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Events

Women in Children's Media: Creating a strong female character
Women in Children's Media present an evening with the producers of the PBS Kids' Emmy Award-winning series WORDGIRL, Danielle Gillis and Lynn Kestin Sessler, with an evening of GIRL POWER: HOW TO BUILD A STRONG GIRL CHARACTER IN A MALE DOMINATED W...

Sid the Science Kid Hackathon
If you have ever envisioned yourself at ...

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