Lessons from Sesame Street

First Lady Pat Nixon meets with Big Bird in the White House, December 20, 1970. (US National Archives, NLRN-WHPO-C5385-12A)

While high-quality educational programming can complement more comprehensive early childhood development interventions, it shouldn’t be a substitute.

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06.22.2015

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Volume 117, Number 1

Two faculty projects examine the awkward partnership between democracy and capitalism.

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures celebrates 100 years of studying inscriptions.

Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, PhD’16, rediscovered a forgotten 19th-century text—then unearthed its author’s extraordinary life story.

Former attorney Phil Witte, JD’83, quit his job to be a full-time cartoonist. Now he has a book of cartoon criticism.

Memorability, says Wilma Bainbridge, isn’t only in the eye of the beholder.