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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_research>
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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>
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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>
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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>