In 1966, television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and psychologist Lloyd Morrisett were thinking of how they could harness the power of the “boob tube” to bridge socioeconomic gaps in children’s education ...
When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...