". . . Why are we going to television?" he [David Silverman, president of American Atheists] asked the audience [at Stanford], a mix of about 100 students and people from the local community. "It's part of our strategy of going where we are not. . . ." -- Kimberly Winston. Atheist TV: Coming soon to a television near you (Religion News Service. 5/7/2014). So began my morning reading. This led to a simple Emerging Scholars Network Facebook Wall post in which I commented: I'm surprised that "atheists" don't already … [Read more...] about Musings: Atheist TV to summer reading
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40 Years of Sesame Street as an Educator?
In How We Got to Sesame Street; Art on Screen (The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 16, 2009), Evan R. Goldstein treats us to some of the history of Sesame Street, which celebrated 40 years on November 10. In 1966 a group of friends gathered for a dinner party in Manhattan. As the evening was winding down, one of the guests, Lloyd N. Morrisett, a vice president at the Carnegie Corporation, turned to his host, a television executive named Joan Ganz Cooney, and asked a seemingly innocuous question: Can … [Read more...] about 40 Years of Sesame Street as an Educator?