Sesame Street research concerns the children's television show Sesame Street, which premiered in 1969. Unlike earlier children's programming, producers used research and more than 1,000 studies and experiments to create the show and test its impact on its young viewers' learning. By the end of the program's first season, the organization founded to oversee Sesame Street production, Children's Television Workshop (CTW), had developed what came to be called the "CTW model": a system of planning, production, and evaluation that combined the expertise of researchers and early childhood educators with that of the program's writers, producers, and directors. CTW utilized independent summative evaluations conducted by the Educational Testing Service during the show's first two seasons to measure the program's educational effectiveness. Based on these findings, the researchers compiled a body of data and the producers changed the show accordingly. The formative research on Sesame Street was the first time children's television viewing was studied scientifically.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
1904:
The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie, premiered in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy
1929:
Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants (poster pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
2007:
Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_Kenyan_crisis
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
golden touch: (idiomatic) Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/golden_touch
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. --Louis Pasteur https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur