How “Sesame Street” Revolutionized Teaching Using Music

Since its inception in 1969, the public television show has redefinedwhat it means to teach children through TV, with music as its resoundingvoice. Before “Sesame Street,” it wasn’t even clear that you could dothat; once the series began, as a radical experiment that joinededucational research and social idealism with the lunacy of puppets andthe buoyancy of advertising jingles, it proved that kids are veryreceptive to a grammar lesson wrapped in a song. – The New York T