6/7/2023 0 Comments Street Gang by Michael DavisLLOYD MORRISETT: We found that those children would enter school three months behind and by the end of first grade, be a year behind. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET") She connected with a psychologist named Lloyd Morrisett over a then-revolutionary idea - that TV could improve the lives of young, low-income kids - especially non-white inner-city kids - by helping prepare them for school. The people who control the system read, and the people who make it in the system read.ĭEGGANS: That's Joan Ganz Cooney, who became the first executive director of the Children's Television Workshop, the nonprofit entity that created "Sesame Street." But in the mid-1960s, Cooney was a TV producer. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans has this review.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: One of the biggest lessons from "Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street" is that the creation of one of the most beloved kids shows in TV history was kind of a political act. There's a new HBO documentary called "Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street." It sheds light on the creation of a show that transformed children's television.
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