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S is for Science: The Making of 3-2-1 Contact

by Ingrid Ockert
August 26, 2021

This article appeared in Physics Today, January 2021, page 26 and appears here with permission. From Elinor Wonders Why to Emily’s Wonder Lab, a multitude of fresh, dynamic programs have recently premiered that

By Gamers, for Gamers: Young People Share Real Advice

by Daniel Donahoo
July 23, 2021

The “stay safe online” message is being heard loud and clear – but these young gamers can see beyond “don’t talk to strangers”. The “By Gamers, For Gamers” Project was

On Our Minds: Talking About Teen Mental Health with Student Reporting Labs

by Administrator
July 13, 2021

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) launched On Our Minds with Noah+Zion, a limited-run podcast series on teen mental health this spring. Over a series of five episodes, 16-year-old hosts

Games in the Lives of Today’s Teens

by Barry Joseph
June 24, 2021

“We used to love playing Xbox all day. That used to be great. But now that it’s all we really do or have to do, they’re always like, ‘Oh, I’m

No Learning Lost Here: Youth Critical Data Practices in the COVID-19 Multi-Pandemic

by Angela Calabrese Barton and Day Greenberg
June 15, 2021

In Spring 2020, as schools around the United States were forced to turn to remote learning methods, a number of research teams around the country mobilized to study how families

Learning Out Loud: Youth Media Challenges Connect Student Voices to Public Media Audiences

by Rachel Roberson and Almetria Vaba
June 9, 2021

After two tough years of pandemic disruption, young people have a lot to say about their experiences, struggles, and hopes for the future. And we as educators and public media

Widen the Welcome: How Public Media Can Connect with the Missing Middle

by Derek E. Baird
June 2, 2021

“While new technology is connecting us to each other in different and much faster ways, these changes will necessarily have a knock-on effect to how we interact with one another,

Hey Big Tech, Now is the Perfect Time to Support Our Kids

by Candice Odgers
May 27, 2021

Zoom school may be over for most of us, but many of our children will continue to spend more time online each week than they do in physical schools.Digital devices

Voices from the Missing Middle

by Monica Bulger and Mary Madden
May 25, 2021

In the 1960s, Joan Ganz Cooney published The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education, a report that would revolutionize television for children. Where others saw a “vast wasteland,” Cooney

Tweens and Teens: Public Media’s Missing Audience at NETA 2021 Annual Conference

by Josh Neese-Todd
March 17, 2021

On January 26, 2021, the Cooney Center’s Executive Director Michael Preston and Senior Fellows Monica Bulger, Mary Madden, and Rafi Santo presented a session called Tweens and Teens: Public Media’s

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