To adult viewers, educational media content for children, such as “Sesame Street” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” may seem rather simplistic. The pacing is slow, key themes are often repeated and ...

On May 2, 2025, at the age of 30, the grant that funded much of PBS KIDS’ content—the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (now defunct, too) and Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) Ready to ...

A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about them ...

PBS Kids shows have always leaned into the joy of literacy, whether children experienced it through alphabet lessons on Sesame Street or story time on Reading Rainbow. For the past decade or so, ...

The IRC is working with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street,” in support of millions of children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. This transformational ...

In May 1969, Fred McFeeley Rogers, host of the nationally syndicated series Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, appeared in front of the U.S. Senate on behalf of PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.