Sesame Street revolutionized early learning nearly five decades ago by using the emerging technology of the day, television, to teach children important basics like colors, numbers and letters of ...

Stretching its way through 140 countries, "Sesame Street" is the longest street in the world. And the iconic children's program is using its Muppets cast to delve into far more sensitive issues ...

What makers of technology for early education can learn from Sesame Street. By Alan Gershenfeld and Michael Levine. Aug 06, 2012 1:45 PM.

“Sesame Street,” which first went on the air 50 years ago this month, is one of the most successful and cost-effective tools ever created for preparing preschool tots for the classroom.

Appealing to both children and adults has long been “Sesame Street’s” secret weapon, all the way back to when the series was conceived by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett in 1969.

I watch and write about TV for a living, and it's all Sesame Street's fault. As a kid in the '80s, I'd sit on the living room floor eating raisins, ready for my first appointment TV. Mister Rogers ...

URBANA – Cookie Monster, Ernie, Bert and other "Sesame Street" characters this year will step up their low-key campaign to improve youngsters' reading skills. And that new emphasis will help ...

“The number of three, four, and five-year-old children in the United States has been estimated at around 12 million. In the past few years, this population, once the most neglected ...

Kids learn to recite number sequences, like 1 to 10, ... Sesame Street. The researchers scanned 27 children aged 4 to 10 while they watched 20 minutes of clips from the popular television show.