Every five years, PBS celebrates "Sesame Street's" apparent TV immortality with a something-ith anniversary. Sadly, that is all it has to celebrate--that a bunch of variously-talented do-gooders have kept their jobs, and their funding.
What has the national literacy rate done over these last 30 years of "Sesame Street"? It has gone *down*. Mathematical acumen of our students? Down. Familiarity with history and civics? Down. Behavior problems? Up. (Ask the teachers themselves, who at the drop of a hat go on strike about anything. Why don't they go on strike about *that*?)
And so, every five years, PBS celebrates... what?
"If PBS won't do it, who will?" So the pitch goes. But what exactly do they claim to be doing?
What has the national literacy rate done over these last 30 years of "Sesame Street"? It has gone *down*. Mathematical acumen of our students? Down. Familiarity with history and civics? Down. Behavior problems? Up. (Ask the teachers themselves, who at the drop of a hat go on strike about anything. Why don't they go on strike about *that*?)
And so, every five years, PBS celebrates... what?
"If PBS won't do it, who will?" So the pitch goes. But what exactly do they claim to be doing?
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