The Wall Street Journal – Jeffrey Sparshott
“Sesame Street brought Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, and scores of other characters into American living rooms with the intent to help educate little kids across the country. It worked. A new paper by Melissa Kearney, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, and Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College, finds that the television show helped improve school readiness, an advantage that lasted at least through high school.”(more)