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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is focusing new resources on the challenges children face today, asking the 21 st century equivalent of her original question, “How can emerging media help children learn?” Joan Ganz Cooney (b. November 30, 1929) began her career as a reporter in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.
Forty years after the landmark study that led to the creation of Sesame Street, we established the Joan Ganz Cooney Center to carry out our co-founder’s vision in a rapidly-changing world, asking the modern version of her game-changing question: “How can emerging media be used to educate kids?”
Named for the co-founder and visionary behind Sesame Street, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center is an independent research and innovation lab within Sesame Workshop that advances positive futures for kids in the digital world.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center (informally, the Cooney Center) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and innovation group founded by Sesame Workshop to advance children's literacy skills and foster innovation in children's learning through digital media.
Joan Ganz Cooney, originator of the preschool educational series Sesame Street, was co-founder in 1968 of Children’s Television Workshop (renamed Sesame Workshop June 2000) and served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990.
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