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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

Technology for Developing Children's Language and Literacy: Bringing Speech Recognition to the Classroom
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), about fifty percent of low-income fourth graders in our nation's schools are unable to read at a basic level.  In this report, Brown University’s Marilyn Jager Adams, a pio...

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Blog & Features

Bringing Speech Recognition to Reading Instruction
Marilyn Jager Adams's report, "Technology for Developing Children's Language and Literacy: Bringing Speech Recognition to the Classroom," was released this fall by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. This commentary was ...

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