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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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Research & Initiatives

Intergenerational Play and Literacy Learning
Forty years of Sesame Street research has consistently demonstrated greater learning benefits when children co-view an educational television program, compared to viewing alone. Might benefits ...

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Blog & Features

Catching the Cooney Center Bug: Reflections on My Summer Internship at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
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What We're Reading: January 6, 2011
Here are some of the stories and videos that caught our interest this past week - highlights feature the growing movement to include iPads in the classroom and a Q&A with Michael Levine, Cynthia Chiong, and Carly Shuler about the recent report, "L...

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