"'Sesame Street,' Child of the Sixties, Faces a New Era"
Newspaper article
By: Grace Hechinger
Date: January 15, 1975
Source: Hechinger, Grace. "'Sesame Street,' Child of the Sixties, Faces a New Era." The New York Times, January 15, 1975, 57 ff.
About the Author: Grace Hechinger (1931) is an American educator and educational consultant. With her husband, Fred M. Hechinger, she has collaborated on titles such as Teenage Tyranny and Growing Up in America. On her own, she is responsible for the acclaimed 1984 volume, How to Raise a Street Smart Child. Hechinger has also served as the education columnist for Glamour magazine.
Introduction
At the time of its invention and development in the 1930s, television was envisaged as an educational tool and a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge. But the rise of commercial broadcasting in the post-World War II period, with its zany and...
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