What's in a name? Well, for Ji-Young, the newest muppet resident of "Sesame Street," her name is a sign she was meant to live there. "So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean ...

What's the difference between a child's brain and a ball of putty? It's smaller than you might think. Easily molded and warped, the folds not yet folded − metaphorically speaking, of course − how ...

As Congress threatens to defund public broadcasting, the defenders of PBS and NPR keep defending themselves by pointing to the importance of their longstanding signature program: “Sesame Street.” The ...

Many years ago, an immigrant from China and I were talking about Voice of America, which was a radio system used to communicate American ideas into Nazi, Fascist, and communist countries during World ...

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Supported by By John ...